From 2022: Raising Antiracist Leaders
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We\\u2019re continuing our Best of ITT series to celebrate seven years of In The Thick with this episode from June 2022. Maria and Julio are joined by Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, for a conversation about his book \\u201cHow to Raise an Antiracist.\\u201d They discuss the evolution of his antiracist scholarship, the rise in mass shootings and white supremacist attacks, and how Black and brown communities can work together in solidarity.
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Kathryn Joyce writes about New College in Florida, a once liberal arts college that is being transformed into a right-leaning institution by DeSantis, who wants to replicate this motion across the country, in this article for Vanity Fair.\\xa0
\\n\\u201cWhat I found in How to Be A (Young) Antiracist was a kind of meditation on the ways that the personal is, as they say, political,\\u201d writes Janell Ross in this interview with author Ibram X. Kendi, for Time Magazine.\\xa0
\\n\\u201cThe maintenance of racism has required the public\\u2019s ignorance of racism. The public\\u2019s ignorance of racism requires a perpetual undermining of public education,\\u201d argues Ibram X. Kendi in this excerpt from his book "How to Raise an Antiracist," published by USA Today. \\xa0
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