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UMKC Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi To Be Keyote of 13th Annual UMKC Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series

Beginning with the Rosa Parks Lecture on Social Justice and Activism in 2007 and annually since 2009 with the Martin Luther King Lecture Series, the Division of Diversity and Inclusion honors the tremendous contributions of individuals furthering civil rights by brining national thought leaders to campus.

ended (February 15, 2021)
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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi To Be Keyote of 13th Annual UMKC Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series

Professor Ibram X Kendi will join us virtually on Monday, February 15th, 2021 at 6 p.m. for an online discussion. Registration is required and admittance is free!


Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor. Kendi is the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

He is the author of many books including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, making him the youngest ever winner of that award. He also authored three #1 New York Times bestsellers, How to Be an Antiracist; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. His newest books are Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action; and Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, co-edited with Keisha Blain, which will be out in February. In 2020, Time magazine named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world.


This event is co-sponsored by Children's Mercy, Johnson County Library, Race Project KC, and Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area


Division of Diversity and Inclusion

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UMKC Division of Diversity and Inclusion
  diversityandinclusion@umkc.edu

Partners

Children's Mercy
  https://www.childrensmercy.org/
Johnson County Library
  https://www.jocolibrary.org/
Race Project KC
  https://www.raceprojectkc.com/
Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area
  http://www.freedomsfrontier.org/

More Information

https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0scuivqDssGt1o4aRL_IVQcQuI3HrKZcEb

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