{snip}
More than a year and a half after being announced, Ibram Kendi’s new antiracism center at Howard University is set to launch this fall.
Howard hired Kendi in January 2025 to direct the Institute for Advanced Study, a think tank that will address “deep and persisting inequities in areas including, but not limited to, technology, the environment, healthcare, the economy, governance, education, and the criminal legal system.”
Kendi officially began in August and joined the history department faculty, but progress at the institute and affiliated publication the Emancipator has been slow. In December, a spokesman for Kendi told The College Fix, “We look forward to launching The Emancipator and the Institute’s website at the beginning of next year.”
Those plans apparently changed, as Kendi announced the institute started hiring in April, nearly two full semesters after he began.
{snip}
As of May 18, the institute was hiring for an administrative assistant, a breaking news correspondent, an investigative correspondent, and a video editor.
However, the institute is not yet listed on Howard’s “Centers & Institutes” or “Research Centers & Institutes” pages. It is listed at the top of the “Centers & Programs” fundraising page and Kendi’s personal website takes visitors to a donation link when they click on the “Howard Institute” button.
{snip}
Kendi has spent much of the last two months on a book tour promoting his latest work, “Chain of Ideas.” The book argues that “great replacement theory,” or the idea that elites are importing foreigners into countries to change their politics, is behind the ascent of “authoritarian” leaders.
Stops on that tour included appearances alongside former Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, rapper Vic Mensa, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
In February, the school named Kendi the inaugural Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History for the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard. That position is “underwritten by $3 million in gifts from several key benefactors including donations from the Stupski Foundation.”
{snip}
Kendi served as the director of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research from 2020 until 2025. He raised more than $50 million for it, but it failed to accomplish much. In September 2023, it laid off more than half of its staff and was mostly inactive by 2024. Kendi faced criticism for his leadership style, but an internal audit ultimately “found no issues with how CAR’s finances were handled.”
{snip}
The post One Year Later, Kendi Begins Hiring for Latest Antiracism Center appeared first on American Renaissance.
American RenaissanceRead More
T1
