On hopelessness: “We have to believe change is possible, even when the odds are completely against us. Following are just four big ideas he left us with, lightly edited. Wednesday’s topics ranged from the presidential debate (which had taken place the night before the Carlson Lecture, though it now seems like eons ago) to the history of white parents adopting Black children, from what’s next after the killing of George Floyd to his children’s board book, “Antiracist Baby” (“some would say that’s probably the most important book that I’ve done”). In virtual person, he comes across as warm, engaging and human – someone you could and would want to talk with about any number of things.

Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of BU’s new Center for Antiracist Research. A National Book Award winner, he’s the Andrew W. 6) on MPR News.Ī prominent scholar and the person most responsible for making “antiracism” part of our national vocabulary, Kendi was recently named one of Time magazine’s most influential people of 2020. If you’re a morning MinnPost reader, you can catch an audio rebroadcast of their talk at 11 a.m. Kendi, best-selling author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” and MPR’s Angela Davis.

A virtual sold-out crowd of 6,000 saw a Zoom conversation between Professor Ibram X. 30, the Humphrey School of Public Affairs hosted its first-ever virtual Distinguished Carlson Lecture.

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