Keisha N. Blain is a historian of the 20th-century United States specializing in African American history, the modern African diaspora, and women’s and gender studies. She is an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, president of the African American Intellectual History Society, and a columnist for MSNBC. She is co-editor, with Ibram X. Kendi, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Four Hundred Souls and author of Until I Am Free.