ONLINE: A Crucial Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi

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Stephen Voss

Historian and author Ibram X. Kendi.

This online talk by Ibram X. Kendi is part of Madison College's powerful series on confronting systemic racism in our society. And few people are better qualified to speak to the issue than the author of the bestselling book How to be an Antiracist. Kendi is a masterful storyteller, deep thinker, and tremendous force for dismantling the ideas and systems that hold the U.S. in the grip of white supremacy. He is a professor in the humanities at Boston University and founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. We can't imagine a better place to be the day after the presidential election. RSVP here.

press release: Madison College Talks: A Crucial Conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 6:30 PM

Madison College's Vice President of Equity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, Lucía Nuñez, will facilitate this discussion with Dr. Kendi, one of America's foremost historians and leading antiracist voices. He is the author bestselling book, How To Be An Antiracist.

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Instead of working with the policies and system we have in place, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.

Bio of Author/Speaker

Ibram X. Kendi is a #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author. His relentless and passionate research puts into question the notion of a post-racial society and opens readers’ and audiences’ eyes to the reality of racism in America today. Kendi’s lectures are sharp, informative, and hopeful, serving as a strong platform for any institution’s discussions on racism and being antiracist.

Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Kendi is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He will also become the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Dr. Kendi is the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and The Black Campus Movement, which won the W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize. He is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers, How To Be an Antiracist, and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, a young adult remix of Stamped from the Beginning, co-authored with Jason Reynolds. He most recently authored the #1 Indie bestseller, Antiracist Baby, available as a board book and picture book for caretakers and little ones.