Dr. Robin Davis Gibran Kelley is an American historian on at UCLA. Kelley's research elevates Black labor organizers and anti-capitalists who are often left out of history books, from radical farmers in the South to Black unions during the Gilded Age. Kelly's scholarship argues that the secret to capitalism's survival is racism. He uses historical analysis to directly challenge the premise that there can be any justice within America's current economic system — and to ask what that means for the people who seek it.