Kendi changed his middle name to Xolani, a Xhosa and Zulu word for "peace". [11][8] Kendi has said that he decided to drop Henry, the middle name he was given at birth, after learning about the key role that Portuguese explorer Prince Henry the Navigator played in beginning the Atlantic slave trade.
Ibram X. Kendi is a contributing writer at The Atlantic; and Mellon Professor and Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Kendi is also the author of How to Be an Antiracist.
Ibram X. Kendi is an American author, historian, and activist who studies and writes about racism and anti-racism in the United States. Through his books and speeches, he argues that racist policies and ideas are deeply ingrained in American society.
Dr. Kendi’s first book, The Black Campus Movement: A History of Black Student Activism, chronicles antiracist organizing among Black students at historically Black and White colleges and universities in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It won the W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize.
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