Featuring Ibram Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016) and How to be an Antiracist (2019)

When the first Black president headed into the White House, Americans were imagining their nation as colorblind and went so far as to call it post-racial. With the arrival of Donald Trump many people are awakening and seeing racial reality for the first time. With opened minds, people are actively trying to understand racism. In this deeply personal and empowering lecture, Kendi shifts the discussion from how not to be racist, to how to be an antiracist. He shares his own racist ideas and how he overcame them. He provides direction to people and institutions who want more than just band-aid programs, but actual antiracist action that builds an antiracist America.

Catered lunch starts 12:10, the lecture at about 12:30 p.m. Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished Lecture on African American History.

For more information, contact: Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch   847.467.0885
efp@northwestern.edu