Ibram X. Kendi to Headline Annual Doerr Center for Social Justice Lecture
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Ibram X. Kendi, Ph.D., the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the author of βHow to Be an Anti-Racist,β will headline the on Thursday, Sept. 10.
Kendiβs talk, βHow To Be An Antiracist: The 2020 Election & Beyondβ will be broadcast on Zoom.
The free event will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10. Capacity is limited to 1,000 people and registration is required.
Kendi is a New York Times bestselling author and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent.
Kendi is also the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Kendi is the author of βStamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,β which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and βThe Black Campus Movement,β which won the W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers, βHow to Be an Antiracistβ and βStamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You,β a young adult remix of βStamped from the Beginning,β co-authored with Jason Reynolds. He most recently authored the Indie bestseller, βAntiracist Baby,β available as a board book and picture book for caretakers and little ones.
For more information on Kendi, visit .
The Emmett J. and Mary Martha Doerr Center for Social Justice Education and Research is an independently funded center within ΘνΓΓΙηβs School of Social Work that promotes long-range solutions to social problems through education and research. The 2020 lecture is sponsored by the Center and the Msrg. Shocklee Lecture Series Foundation.