Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the inaugural Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. He is Board Chair of the Vera Institute of Justice, and a WGBH contributor to Boston Public Radio. He is the former Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global Black history. He co-hosted the Pushkin Industries podcast Some of My Best Friends Are and recently co-chaired the New Jersey Institute of Social Justice Reparations Council.

Muhammad’s scholarship examines the broad intersections of systemic racism, structural inequality, and democracy in U.S. History. He is the award-winning author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America and co-chaired a 2022 National Academies of Science study, Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice. His writing and scholarship have been featured in national print and broadcast media outlets, such as the New Yorker, Washington Post, The Nation, National Public Radio, PBS Newshour, Moyers and Company, MSNBC, WGBH, and the New York Times, which includes his sugar essay for The 1619 Project. He has appeared in two dozen feature-length documentaries, including Amend: The Fight for America, the Oscar-nominated 13th, and Slavery by Another Name (2012).