Ibram X. Kendi

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is one of the world’s foremost historians of racism and a leading antiracist scholar. He is the Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History at Howard University and the inaugural director of Howard’s Institute for Advanced Study.

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, making him the youngest author to receive that honor. Stamped from the Beginning was later adapted into acclaimed books for young readers and an Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary.

He is also the author of the international bestseller How to Be an Antiracist, which The New York Times described as “the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.” In total, Dr. Kendi has published 18 books for adults and children, including 12 New York Times bestsellers, five of which reached #1.

Time magazine named Dr. Kendi one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the “Genius Grant.” His latest critically acclaimed bestseller is Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age.

Dr. Kendi was formerly named Ibram Rogers. He and his wife, Sadiqa, changed their names together to Kendi when they wed in 2013.

Learn more at Ibram X. Kendi’s official website.