Khalil G. Muhammad
Khalil G. Muhammad is a 1-Time AALBC.com Bestselling Author
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad was the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research
library of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading archive of
the global black experience. His position begins in July 2011.
For the past five years, Dr. Muhammad has been an assistant professor of
American History at Indiana University, and, as of August 2010, the
associate editor of the Journal of American History. Following the
completion of his doctorate from Rutgers University, he spent two years as a
Mellon Fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice, a criminal justice think
tank in New York City. He is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness:
Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, published by
Harvard University Press. Condemnation was selected by the San Francisco
Chronicle as a top ten title for Black History Month, and recommended in the
April issue of Ebony Magazine. Glenn Loury of Brown University says
Condemnation “is the most significant work in the study of race and American
society to have appeared in the past decade.”
Dr. Muhammad’s scholarship has been featured in the Washington Post, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, and the Charlotte Observer, as well as on National
Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, and Radio One. He was a commentator in a 2009
PBS documentary, Witnesses to History, on the election of
Barack Obama, and a featured panelist at this
summer’s National Urban League Centennial Conference. He appears monthly on
local radio and writes for theDefendersonline.com, a blog of the NAACP Legal
Defense and Education Fund. He speaks regularly about the history of race
relations and its ongoing challenges to student groups, community
organizations, professional societies, and policy researchers.
Muhammad is the great-grandson of Elijah Muhammad, who led the Nation of Islam during the mid-20th century.
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