The New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, will discuss his book, How to be an Antiracist, Monday, Nov. 9 live on Zoom.
Dr. Kendi is the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, a contributor writer at “The Atlantic,” a CBS news correspondent, National Book Award winner and a world-renowned historian. His new book, published in August 2019, “How to be an Antiracist,” has been called “the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind,” by The New York Times.
Using his book as a tool, he will be challenging audience members to imagine what an anti-racist society would look like and how to achieve this level of coexistence. He will be challenging his audience to think outside the basic awareness of racism and venture to the next level of helping to build a truly just, equitable and diverse society.
This conversation with Kendi will be moderated by Natalie Moore, who covers segregation and inequality for Chicago’s WBEZ. Her enterprise reporting has tackled race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Moore’s work has been broadcast on the BBC, Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and a Buzzfeed best nonfiction book of 2016. She is co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation.
Event registration information will be available at aurorapubliclibrary.org/event/4628756. This event is presented by Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Aurora Public Library District, Deerfield Public Library, Glencoe Public Library, Highland Park Public Library, Lake Villa District Library, Northbrook Public Library, Schaumburg Township District Library, Skokie Public Library, Vernon Area Public Library, and Wilmette Public Library.
—Aurora Public Library District