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Tag: National Book Award
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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi Joins Boston University to Lead New Antiracist Research Center
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, one of the most sought-after scholars on racism in America, will join Boston University, launching the institution’s new Center for Antiracist Research.
June 4, 2020
Latest News
At ASALH, Historian Tells Story of Fugitive Slave
Speaking at the 103rd annual meeting and conference of The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) on Saturday, Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar said that Ona Judge was “a new American hero” who defied the first president, George Washington, at all costs.
October 7, 2018
News Roundup
Tom Wolfe, Pioneering Journalist and Novelist, Dies at 88
Tom Wolfe, the influential writer whose unconventional, exuberant prose laid the foundation for so-called New Journalism and fueled his best-sellers The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has died. He was 88. Lynn Nesbit, Wolfe’s agent, told the Associated Press that Wolfe died of an infection Monday in a hospital in Manhattan. Wolfe’s […]
May 16, 2018
Faculty & Staff
Ibram Kendi Directs Nation’s Focus to History of Racism
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi hopes that the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction he was awarded for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, could bring more attention to other scholars taking a hard look at the history of racism in America.
January 9, 2017
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