In memoriam Martin Kilson (1931–2019)

Longtime Dissent contributor and editorial board member Martin Kilson died on April 24, 2019, at the age of eighty-eight. Kilson, the first African-American tenured professor at Harvard, first contributed to Dissent in 1969 with an article on "The New Black Intellectuals." The essay was characteristic of Kilson's work: erudite, uncompromising, and committed to radical critique. He went on to write over twenty articles for Dissent over the following decades, and edited a special section in 1989—"Black America: Views from Within"—and (with Mitchell Cohen) a special issue in 1992, "Africa Today: Crisis and Change."