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James Baldwin on Racism and American Character - Dec. 10, 1986

By James Baldwin — 2020

Novelist James Baldwin in a Dec. 10, 1986 National Press Club talk. In this clip he argues that simplicity and immaturity are considered virtues in America.

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How to Be an Antiracist

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.

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Ibram X. Kendi
2024
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3 Takeaways from Ibram X. Kendi’s Globe Summit Session on Building an Antiracist Society

“A year ago we were imagining we would be in a different place at this point.”

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Dialynn Dwyer
2021
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Ibram X. Kendi Recommends 6 Books to Help Your Kids Understand Race

The writer Ibram X. Kendi has been reading a lot of books to his five-year-old daughter, Imani. And when he chooses those books, he makes sure they include many kinds of people.

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Steve Inskeep
2021
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Denial Is the Heartbeat of America

When have Americans been willing to admit who we are?

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Ibram X. Kendi
2021
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019

Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span.

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Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
2024
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X.

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Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
2020
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X.

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Ibram X. Kendi
2024
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Patience Is a Dirty Word

“We do not want our freedom gradually,” John Lewis said, “but we want to be free now!”

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Ibram X. Kendi
2020
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