After a two-year co-production, National book award winner and author and scholar behind How To Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi published by Penguin Random House, is launching a podcast on Spotify, ‘Be Antiracist’.
Kendi is one of America's foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News Racial Justice Contributor. He is also the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 2020, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Kendi has teamed up with Malcolm Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries and iHeartMedia to launch the podcast series which will “see the historian and Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research dissect the policies that contribute to racial inequity and injustice, and proposes policies and platforms that can lead us toward an antiracist future,” according to Deadline.
‘Be Antiracist’ will be a weekly interview podcast show that will attract listeners who are eager to challenge their antiracist work. It will involve what an antiracist society looks like and what people/communities can do to get involved. Kendi will be joined by politicians where they will discuss antiracist policies in over 10 episodes.
"BEING AN ANTIRACIST REQUIRES PERSISTENT SELF-AWARENESS, CONSTANT SELF-CRITICISM, AND REGULAR SELF-EXAMINATION."
- IBRAM X. KENDI
Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi will premiere on June 9, 2021. It will be distributed by the iHeartPodcast Network to all podcast platforms.
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