Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Suzanne Young Murray professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America. He is formerly the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
Even as activists are organizing against police violence, many Americans continue to see blacks as criminals—and want our police to act accordingly.