Robin D.G. Kelley

Robin D.G. Kelley is the Distinguished Professor of History and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. His books include Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, and Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labors Last Century, written collaboratively with Dana Frank and Howard Zinn. Kelley's essays have appeared in several anthologies and publications, including the Nation, the New York Times, Counterpunch, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir, Signs, American Quarterly, and Re-Thinking Marxism.