Black Lives Matter Leader Hired as Professor at Yale University

Yale University has hired the leader of the "Black Live Matter" movement to teach a one-credit course this fall as part of a new leadership program.

DeRay McKesson, 30, will teach the first part of a special three-section course at the Yale Divinity School, according to the higher education blog Campus Reform and The New York Post.

McKesson's course will be entitled "Transformational Leadership in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement."

Teaching the other two sections are Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware and the Rev. Nancy Taylor, senior minister of Old South Church in Boston, which is located near where the Boston Marathon bombings occurred in 2013.

The course is part of the Divinity School's "Transformational Leadership for Church and Society Program," according to the reports. The reading includes three books plus articles from The New York Times and The Huffington Post.

Here is how the syllabus describes McKesson, the only guest lecturer who is not an alumnus of Yale Divinity School:

"A young leader of the Black Lives Matter Movement, DeRay McKesson will present case studies about the work of organizing, public advocacy, civil disobedience, and social change, through both leadership of presence, and leadership in the social media."

According to the reports, McKesson last worked as a human resources administrator for the Minneapolis public school system. His LinkedIn profile lists his only teaching experience as a middle school math teacher from May 2007 to June 2009.

The Yale program is financed through a $120,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

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