Ibram X. Kendi

American author and historian · United States · Writers · Born 1982 · age 44

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S. He is author of books including Stamped from the Beginning, How to Be an Antiracist, Antiracist Baby, and Chain of Ideas. " Kendi was also included in Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

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2021MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward2020“I woke up in the middle of the night to the news that Chadwick had passed. And at first I thought it was a nightmare. Like many people, I was shocked.”In their words31 August 2020Remembering Chadwick Boseman: Ibram X. Kendi on Legacy of "Black Panther" Actor, Cancer & Anti-Racism, Democracy Now, (31 August 2020)Read the whole statement

“As soon as Pence started denying the existence of systemic racism, the fly got him!”In their wordsQuoted by Amy Goodman in [https://www.democracynow.org/2020/10/8/rev_william_barber_voting_2020|Rev. William Barber on Voter Suppression:Read the whole statement

Time 100Award2019“I think most Americans, without recognizing it, say and believe both racist and antiracist ideas.”In their wordsInterview with Rachel Martin in NPR (2019 Aug 13)Read the whole statement

“The working class in the United States has never been united; it’s always been divided along the lines of race.”In their wordsInterview with Owen Jones, The Guardian (2019 Aug 14)Read the whole statement

“Part of the reason so many Americans are so defensive is because we’ve been led to believe that racist is a fixed category, that it’s a tattoo, it’s a label.”In their words“How to Be an Antiracist Author Ibram X. Kendi on What We Get Wrong About Racism” in Time Magazine (2019 Aug 8)Read the whole statement

Guggenheim FellowshipAward2003“I don't hate white folk because I'm a Christian. How can you hate a group of people for being who they are?... Europeans are simply a different breed of human.”In their words9 September 2003Living with the white race, 9 September 2003Read the whole statement

1982Born13 August 1982

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Kendi at the 2019 Texas Book Festival

Ibram X. Kendi presenting his book How to Be an Antiracist at Unitarian Universalist Church located in Montclair, New Jersey, on August 14, 2019

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I woke up in the middle of the night to the news that Chadwick had passed. And at first I thought it was a nightmare. Like many people, I was shocked.
Aug 31, 2020, Remembering Chadwick Boseman: Ibram X. Kendi on Legacy of "Black Panther" Actor, Cancer & Anti-Racism, Democracy Now, (31 August 2020), Own words
As soon as Pence started denying the existence of systemic racism, the fly got him!
2020, Quoted by Amy Goodman in [https://www.democracynow.org/2020/10/8/rev_william_barber_voting_2020|Rev. William Barber on Voter Suppression:, Own words
I think most Americans, without recognizing it, say and believe both racist and antiracist ideas.
2019, Interview with Rachel Martin in NPR (2019 Aug 13), Own words

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Awards

MacArthur Fellows Program2021

Time 1002020

Guggenheim Fellowship2019

In common with Ibram

Mara Brock AkilAlso in Stamped from the Beginning (2023)

Roger Ross WilliamsAlso in Stamped from the Beginning (2023)

Writers from the United States 4

About this person

Ibram Xolani Kendi is an American author, professor, anti-racism activist, and historian of race and discriminatory policy in the U.S. He is author of books including Stamped from the Beginning, How to Be an Antiracist, Antiracist Baby, and Chain of Ideas. He has been interviewed by such figures as Stephen Colbert and Oprah Winfrey, and in 2019, the New York Times referred to him as "one of the country’s most in-demand commentators on racism." Kendi was also included in Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

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United States