Ibram X. Kendi
@ibramxk.bsky.social
National Book Award-winning Historian @Howard.edu • 11x NYT Bestselling Author. MacArthur Fellow. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
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Ibram X. Kendi
@ibramxk.bsky.social
· May 13
It is an honor to present to the world, MALCOLM LIVES: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers. It comes out today! It is a gift to the world, and a gift to Malcolm as the world is about to celebrate his 100th birthday on May 19. His favorite gift, a book.
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The first thing I did after reading this article (& posting it here), was to buy a copy of "How to be an Anti-Racist," by Ibram X Kendi. If the regime doesn't want you to read, view, or listen, then it is our duty to read, view or listen.
They want to suppress forward motion. DON'T LET THEM.
They want to suppress forward motion. DON'T LET THEM.
A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.
Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art
A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.
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August 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The first thing I did after reading this article (& posting it here), was to buy a copy of "How to be an Anti-Racist," by Ibram X Kendi. If the regime doesn't want you to read, view, or listen, then it is our duty to read, view or listen.
They want to suppress forward motion. DON'T LET THEM.
They want to suppress forward motion. DON'T LET THEM.
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Reading @ibramxk.bsky.social 's book and i work in the area he grew up in Queens. Antiracist work today is the same as in the past because racism never went away.
August 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Reading @ibramxk.bsky.social 's book and i work in the area he grew up in Queens. Antiracist work today is the same as in the past because racism never went away.
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More than ever, America needs to be listening to and amplifying black voices, following black leaders, and reading black authors. If you aren’t 100% sure what the word “Antiracist” means, you must read this book by @ibramxk.bsky.social
Buy from a black bookseller here
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Buy from a black bookseller here
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Ibram X. Kendi - How To Be An Antiracist (Hardcover)
Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and e...
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August 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
More than ever, America needs to be listening to and amplifying black voices, following black leaders, and reading black authors. If you aren’t 100% sure what the word “Antiracist” means, you must read this book by @ibramxk.bsky.social
Buy from a black bookseller here
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Buy from a black bookseller here
kweliclub.com/products/ibr...
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“I could see this White House not wanting their supporters to take my work seriously, because I think if they did, they wouldn't take the White House seriously.” - Ibram X. Kendi, author of the book How to be An Antiracist
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Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art — NPR
A page published by the White House entitled
apple.news
August 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“I could see this White House not wanting their supporters to take my work seriously, because I think if they did, they wouldn't take the White House seriously.” - Ibram X. Kendi, author of the book How to be An Antiracist
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The Trump regime is trying to silence @ibramxk.bsky.social for being truthful about America's history of slavery and racism. You know what that means: Time to buy and read every one of Kendi's books.
August 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The Trump regime is trying to silence @ibramxk.bsky.social for being truthful about America's history of slavery and racism. You know what that means: Time to buy and read every one of Kendi's books.
The White House listed Smithsonian materials it found objectionable. The first: a series on “white dominant culture” that “featured content from hardcore work activist Ibram X. Kendi.” As a scholar, I don’t use the concept of “white dominant culture.”
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian
The National Museum of African American History and Culture debuted a series to educate people on “a society that privileges white people and whiteness” —
www.whitehouse.gov
August 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The White House listed Smithsonian materials it found objectionable. The first: a series on “white dominant culture” that “featured content from hardcore work activist Ibram X. Kendi.” As a scholar, I don’t use the concept of “white dominant culture.”
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
I am not surprised that this president would insinuate that slavery was not that bad. After all, this is the same president who ordered federal agents to kidnap residents and force them into prisons. . .
August 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I am not surprised that this president would insinuate that slavery was not that bad. After all, this is the same president who ordered federal agents to kidnap residents and force them into prisons. . .
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23/52 everyone recommends this one for a reason. Everyone should read this one, too.
(Trying to read again. Sometimes you have to name the cycle to escape it.)
(Trying to read again. Sometimes you have to name the cycle to escape it.)
August 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
23/52 everyone recommends this one for a reason. Everyone should read this one, too.
(Trying to read again. Sometimes you have to name the cycle to escape it.)
(Trying to read again. Sometimes you have to name the cycle to escape it.)
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Spied this book on the shelves at the library when touring my kid’s new school.
This is a good sign.
This is a good sign.
August 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Spied this book on the shelves at the library when touring my kid’s new school.
This is a good sign.
This is a good sign.
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Anti-racism scholar @ibramxk.bsky.social returns to #HBCU roots to build a new institute for Advanced Study at @howard.edu
Check out our August cover story: lnkd.in/e3tUVxiq
Check out our August cover story: lnkd.in/e3tUVxiq
August 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Anti-racism scholar @ibramxk.bsky.social returns to #HBCU roots to build a new institute for Advanced Study at @howard.edu
Check out our August cover story: lnkd.in/e3tUVxiq
Check out our August cover story: lnkd.in/e3tUVxiq
Fitting headline. I can’t tell you the number of times Howard alumni, students, and new colleagues welcomed me home since we announced in January I was coming to the Mecca. 🙏🏾
I joined the HU faculty a few days ago. Honored to be featured in Diverse’s HBCU issue.
I joined the HU faculty a few days ago. Honored to be featured in Diverse’s HBCU issue.
August 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Fitting headline. I can’t tell you the number of times Howard alumni, students, and new colleagues welcomed me home since we announced in January I was coming to the Mecca. 🙏🏾
I joined the HU faculty a few days ago. Honored to be featured in Diverse’s HBCU issue.
I joined the HU faculty a few days ago. Honored to be featured in Diverse’s HBCU issue.
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Summer reading for your 4th, 5th 6th, reluctant 7th-grade reader:
#booksky#yaliterature#yabooks
#booksky#yaliterature#yabooks
July 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Summer reading for your 4th, 5th 6th, reluctant 7th-grade reader:
#booksky#yaliterature#yabooks
#booksky#yaliterature#yabooks
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The recent U.S. bombing of Iran appears to be part and parcel of a larger colonial project under the Trump administration. 🖊️ @chandelis.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social @ibramxk.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The recent U.S. bombing of Iran appears to be part and parcel of a larger colonial project under the Trump administration. 🖊️ @chandelis.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social @ibramxk.bsky.social
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
Take a moment to read an abridged version of one of the greatest speeches in history. “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852 in @theemancipator.org.
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Take a moment to read an abridged version of one of the greatest speeches in history. “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852 in @theemancipator.org.
theemancipator.org/2025/06/30/s...
Frederick Douglass' anti-slavery speech remains relevant
The abolitionist’s fiery message for America still resonates.
theemancipator.org
July 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
Take a moment to read an abridged version of one of the greatest speeches in history. “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852 in @theemancipator.org.
theemancipator.org/2025/06/30/s...
Take a moment to read an abridged version of one of the greatest speeches in history. “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852 in @theemancipator.org.
theemancipator.org/2025/06/30/s...
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“Racist ideas make White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas.” - Ibram X. Kendi, ‘How to be an Antiracist’
June 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“Racist ideas make White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas.” - Ibram X. Kendi, ‘How to be an Antiracist’
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Listening to the audiobook Malcolm Lives! By Dr. Ibram X Kendi…
He writes Marcus Garvey was deported!!
Every other book I read said Marcus Garvey just dipped…
History really gets rewritten by YT authors 🤦🏻♀️😡
Thank goodness for scholars like Dr. Ibram X Kendi, teaching us the real history 💕
He writes Marcus Garvey was deported!!
Every other book I read said Marcus Garvey just dipped…
History really gets rewritten by YT authors 🤦🏻♀️😡
Thank goodness for scholars like Dr. Ibram X Kendi, teaching us the real history 💕
July 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Listening to the audiobook Malcolm Lives! By Dr. Ibram X Kendi…
He writes Marcus Garvey was deported!!
Every other book I read said Marcus Garvey just dipped…
History really gets rewritten by YT authors 🤦🏻♀️😡
Thank goodness for scholars like Dr. Ibram X Kendi, teaching us the real history 💕
He writes Marcus Garvey was deported!!
Every other book I read said Marcus Garvey just dipped…
History really gets rewritten by YT authors 🤦🏻♀️😡
Thank goodness for scholars like Dr. Ibram X Kendi, teaching us the real history 💕
On July 4th, some Americans feel free (to oppress and exploit). Others feel fearful within Trump’s state of fear. Others are fearlessly resisting, like Malcolm X. Malcolm’s fearlessness lives in our resistance. What I’m celebrating. My latest @TheEmancipator.org.
theemancipator.org/2025/06/30/s...
theemancipator.org/2025/06/30/s...
Malcolm X’s fearlessness lives
Every day, Americans are carrying on Malcolm’s fearlessness.
theemancipator.org
July 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
On July 4th, some Americans feel free (to oppress and exploit). Others feel fearful within Trump’s state of fear. Others are fearlessly resisting, like Malcolm X. Malcolm’s fearlessness lives in our resistance. What I’m celebrating. My latest @TheEmancipator.org.
theemancipator.org/2025/06/30/s...
theemancipator.org/2025/06/30/s...
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Phase 1 of summer reading collection arrived 😍
June 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Phase 1 of summer reading collection arrived 😍
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In case you missed it on the #claycaneshow -- Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on FAMU’s new president—and how even Black people can benefit from anti-Blackness.
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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on FAMU’s New President—and How Even Black People Can Benefit From Anti-Blackness
YouTube video by The Clay Cane Show
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June 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In case you missed it on the #claycaneshow -- Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on FAMU’s new president—and how even Black people can benefit from anti-Blackness.
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Delighted to share that MALCOLM LIVES! received its third and fourth starred reviews. My editor told me it is rare for a book to receive four starred reviews. So feeling grateful for the readers and reviewers at Booklist and School Library Journal. ✨✨✨✨
#booksky
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#booksky
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June 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Delighted to share that MALCOLM LIVES! received its third and fourth starred reviews. My editor told me it is rare for a book to receive four starred reviews. So feeling grateful for the readers and reviewers at Booklist and School Library Journal. ✨✨✨✨
#booksky
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#booksky
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Racist Americans have murdered Black lives and tried to murder Black afterlives, Black stories and Black history,” Ibram X. Kendi writes. So when Black people die, “what we contributed, what we changed, what we documented dies, too. No funeral. Just gone from memory.”
“Racist Americans have murdered Black lives and tried to murder Black afterlives, Black stories and Black history,” Ibram X. Kendi writes. So when Black people die, “what we contributed, what we changed, what we documented dies, too. No funeral. Just gone from memory.”
Opinion | Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Racist Americans have murdered Black lives and tried to murder Black afterlives, Black stories and Black history,” Ibram X. Kendi writes. So when Black people die, “what we contributed, what we changed, what we documented dies, too. No funeral. Just gone from memory.”
“Racist Americans have murdered Black lives and tried to murder Black afterlives, Black stories and Black history,” Ibram X. Kendi writes. So when Black people die, “what we contributed, what we changed, what we documented dies, too. No funeral. Just gone from memory.”
Ayman Odeh is a member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. He leads the Arab-Jewish Hadash party and often quotes MLK Jr. Odeh was forcefully removed from the podium in Israeli’s parliament when he criticised Israel’s war on Gaza and the rising deaths of Palestinians.
Source: The Guardian
Source: The Guardian
June 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Ayman Odeh is a member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. He leads the Arab-Jewish Hadash party and often quotes MLK Jr. Odeh was forcefully removed from the podium in Israeli’s parliament when he criticised Israel’s war on Gaza and the rising deaths of Palestinians.
Source: The Guardian
Source: The Guardian
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Powerful Article by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Powerful Article by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
The University of Michigan president Santa Ono smeared diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to get this job. But he is qualified. I can’t say the same about Marva Johnson, selected to be next president of Florida A&M University, the top public HBCU.
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May 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The University of Michigan president Santa Ono smeared diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to get this job. But he is qualified. I can’t say the same about Marva Johnson, selected to be next president of Florida A&M University, the top public HBCU.
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Ibram X. Kendi uses the Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906 and editor Max Barber to describe how "Trump's Attacks on Black History Betray America."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Ibram X. Kendi uses the Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906 and editor Max Barber to describe how "Trump's Attacks on Black History Betray America."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...