Frank Leon Roberts
American activist, writer, political commentator and college professor
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Frank Leon Roberts (born August 25, 1982)[citation needed] is an American activist, writer,[1] political commentator, and college professor[2][3] at Amherst College, known for his involvement in the #BlackLivesMatter movement.[4][5][6][7] Roberts is a former faculty member at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where his course "Black Lives Matter: Race, Resistance, and Populist Protest"[8] received national attention for being widely acknowledged as the first such course offered on a university campus.[9] He has been a frequent media commentator on issues related to the intersections of race and gender in American public life.[10][11][12][13][14][15]
Frank Leon Roberts | |
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Frank Leon Roberts, Ferguson, Missouri, October 2014. | |
| Born | August 25, 1982 |
| Occupations | Professor, writer, commentator and activist |
| Academic background | |
| Education | New York University, Yale University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | New York University, Amherst College |
A community organizer and public speaker, Roberts's varied perspectives on #BlackLivesMatter's influence on public debates about race and racial inequity have been cited by The New York Times, BBC Radio, NBC, CBC, Univision, The Chronicle of Higher Education and a variety of national outlets.[16][17][18][19]
Roberts is also the founder and executive director of For Freedom's Sake, a New York City based grassroots social justice organization that mobilizes black and brown communities through teach-ins and public dialogues.[20]
Roberts is a 2019 Roddenberry Foundation Fellow,[21] and a Ford Foundation Fellow.[22]
Education
Roberts is an undergraduate alumnus of New York University, where he received both NYU's Michael Parkes Distinguished Alumni Award and Martin Luther King Trailblazer Award in 2015.[23] He also attended graduate school at NYU as a Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellow and Yale University.[24][25][26]