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Center for Antiracist Research

Black and white photo of Marcelle Willock, a pioneering Physician and BU Medical School Leader. She stands with her hand on a railing and smiles.

Health & Medicine

Marcelle Willock, Pioneering Physician and BU Medical School Leader

October 7, 2020

Otis Rolley III, Senior Vice President, U.S. Equity and Economic Opportunity Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation, and Ibram X. Kendi, Director and Founder of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, in a discussion outdoors at Boston University. Photo courtesy of The Rockefeller Foundation

Center for Antiracist Research

Rockefeller Foundation Awards $1.5 Million Grant to BU Center for Antiracist Research

October 1, 2020

Portrait of Ibram X. Kendi from Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World list

Accolades

Ibram X. Kendi Named to Time100 List of Most Influential People

September 22, 2020

A crowd of people marching at a Black Lives Matter protest. A man holds a sign that says "Antiracism starts with education" at the front of the crowd.

Center for Antiracist Research

Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to BU Center for Antiracist Research

August 20, 2020

Portait of Ibram X. Kendi in a gray suit with his hands on a desk in front of him. Kendi is a leading historian and author of the bestselling 'How to be an Antiracist.'

Accolades

Ibram X. Kendi Awarded BU’s Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities

July 1, 2020

The sunset reflects off the Vertex Pharmaceuticals headquarters building, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017 in Boston's Seaport. A sign on the building reads 'Vertex' in purple. The top dome of a building is seen in the bottom left foreground.

Center for Antiracist Research

Vertex Gives $1.5 Million to New BU Center for Antiracist Research

June 25, 2020

Photo of a computer with speakers from Boston University's Day of Collective Engagement to Reflect on American Racism, hosted on Zoom. On screen, Ibram X. Kendi, Paula Austin, Louis Chude-Sokei, and Saida Grundy as they speak during the opening plenary.

Racism

Pain, Anger, and Hope as BU Comes Together to Talk Race and Racism

June 24, 2020

A portrait photo of Ibram X. Kendi

University News

Ibram X. Kendi, Leading Scholar of Racism, to Join BU and Launch BU Center for Antiracist Research

June 4, 2020

Photo of the cover of "How to Be An Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi resting on a grainy piece of dark wood.

Antiracism

“I Believe That Change Is Possible”—Q&A with Ibram X. Kendi

June 4, 2020

“I Believe That Change Is Possible”—Q&A with Ibram X. Kendi