Frank Leon Roberts is an American activist, writer, political commentator, and college professor at Amherst College, known for his involvement in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Roberts is a former faculty member at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where his course "Black Lives Matter: Race, Resistance, and Populist Protest" received national attention for being widely acknowledged as the first such course offered on a university campus. He has been a frequent media commentator on issues related to the intersections of race and gender in American public life.