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OP-ED: Developing An Antiracist Foreign Policy

Editors December 1, 2021
It is beyond time to develop antiracist foreign policy — an approach which could lead to the end of systemic racism in world institutions.
Ibram X. Kendi

Kendi, Center for Antiracist Research aim to inspire policy change

Colbi Edmonds February 18, 2021
Kendi serves as the founder and director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research, which launched in July with the stated mission of understanding, explaining and solving seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice.
Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi discussed anti-racism in policymaking with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley in a Facebook Live event Thursday. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

BU’s Ibram X. Kendi, Representatives examine racial disparities in health, environment

Emily Stevenson February 5, 2021
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Ibram X. Kendi, director and founder of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Cali., hosted a Facebook Live event to discuss antiracist policymaking Thursday evening.
The City of Boston and New England Conservatory’s 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
Guest speakers and members of the Boston University community honored King by giving speeches, while Conservatory musicians performed musical tributes. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU Howard Thurman Center virtually honors Martin Luther King Jr.

Rachel Do January 21, 2021
Boston University celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory in a virtual event on Monday. For King, the university is close to home — it’s where he earned his doctorate degree and the city where he met the woman he would marry.
Boston University’s Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground hosted “A Conversation with Dr. Ibram X Kendi” on Wednesday to kick off a new speaker series. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

HTC facilitates conversation with Ibram X. Kendi, students on post-election reflections

Yiran Yu December 7, 2020
The director for BU's Center for Antiracist Research, along with HTC student ambassadors, answered questions about identity, civic engagement and activism.
The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground hosted a virtual panel on Monday to address justice, community and racial reconciliation. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU antiracism scholars evaluate activism in the current moment

Ashley Soebroto October 2, 2020
On Monday, the Howard Thurman Center hosted the first panel in a new series that will address questions of justice, community and racial reconciliation.
Bearing Witness: The rise and fall of campus intellectualism

Bearing Witness: The rise and fall of campus intellectualism

Ariel Stein September 24, 2018

Can we all be intellectuals? My place as an immature, sheltered freshman, combined with the unreliability of Instagram, contributed to a vision of my perceived notion of college as a place where materialism...

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