Please join the Office of CLRI, in collaboration with Talking Leaves and Key Bank , and the Our Story Project Scholars of the Buffalo Public Schools as they host nationally recognized and award-winning author, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi at the Buffalo Museum of Science School #59 on 1/31/24 at 9:30am. Dr. Kendi will present his new book, and a young people's adaptation of Barracoon, from the world-renowned literary canon of Zora Neal Hurston.
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DR. IBRAM X. KENDI is a National Book Award-winning author of fifteen books for adults and children, including nine New York Times bestsellers—five of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. Dr. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor.
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 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’s other bestsellers include How to Raise an Antiracist; Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, co-edited with Keisha Blain; How to Be a (Young) Antiracist, co-authored with Nic Stone; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. In 2020, Time magazine named Dr. Kendi one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. He was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.
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The Office of CLRI Presents:
DR. Ibram x. Kendi
BARRACOON
By Zora Neale Hurston Adapted for Young People
January 31, 2024 | 9:30 AM
Buffalo Museum of Science
This event will be livestreamed on the Buffalo Public Schools website at www.buffaloschools.org