Charles W. Mills was a Britain-born, Jamaican-raised Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY who earned his Master's and Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. A vanguard philosopher of race, Mills published six books and over 100 articles throughout the course of his multi-decade career. In critique of philosophy's failure to address systemic racism and racial justice at large, Mills notably pioneered a theory of Black radical liberalism.

Volume Editor Elizabeth Anderson is a John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at University of Michigan. She specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and social sciences.