Ula Y. Taylor is the 1960 Chair of Undergraduate Education and professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam and The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey and a co-author of Panther: A Pictorial History of the Black Panther Party and the Story Behind the Film.