Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of African American studies and public affairs, directed the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project at Harvard University and is 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. Muhammad’s scholarship examines the broad intersections of racism, economic inequality, criminal justice, and democracy in U.S. history. He is co-directing a National Academy of Sciences study on reducing racial inequalities in the criminal justice system. Muhammad was an associate editor of The Journal of American History and an Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice. He is a member of the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society.