"A UNIVERSAL RECOGNITION OF THE UNBREAKABLE CHAIN OF HUMANITY CAN LIBERATE US FROM THE BREAKABLE CHAIN OF IDEAS."

- IBRAM X. KENDI, CHAIN OF IDEAS

DR. IBRAM X. KENDI  is one of the world’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars. He is a National Book Award-winning author of seventeen books for adults and children, including eleven New York Times bestsellers. His books have been translated into multiple languages and republished throughout North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Dr. Kendi is Professor of History at Howard University and Director of its newly established Howard Institute for Advanced Study in Washington, DC. He 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 win that award. He also authored the international bestseller, How to Be an Antiracist, which was described in the New York Times as “the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.” Dr. Kendi was awarded the distinguished Guggenheim Fellowship, elected to the prestigious Society of American Historians, and named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Time magazine has named Dr. Kendi one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.