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Ibram X. Kendi moves to Howard University. His Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University is closing.

John Fea   |  January 30, 2025

Here is BU Today: Ibram X. Kendi, the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), says he has decided to leave BU to join Howard University in Washington, DC. CAR will close when its charter with the University […]

Pamela Paul: “a person can oppose racism on firm ethical or philosophical or pragmatic grounds without embracing Kendi’s conception of antiracism.”

John Fea   |  October 6, 2023

Pamela Paul, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review, is the latest to use the Ibram X. Kendi controversy at Boston University to critique Kendi’s philosophy of “antiracism.” Here is Paul: “…many major universities, corporations, nonprofit groups […]

Ibram X. Kendi’s “failure, intellectual and moral, is as much ours as it is his”

John Fea   |  September 29, 2023

Back in June we brought some attention to Bates University environmental studies scholar Tyler Austin Harper‘s New York Times piece on race and college admissions. Now, in a piece at The Washington Post, he has weighed-in on the Ibram X. […]

Jemar Tisby responds to Boston University’s investigation of Ibram X. Kendi’s antiracist center

John Fea   |  September 23, 2023

I am not sure if Jemar Tisby will like this comparison, but I think it is fair to say that most evangelicals see him–for good or for bad–as the Christian version of Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi wrote Stamped from the […]

Ibram X. Kendi responds to Boston University’s investigation into his antiracist center

John Fea   |  September 23, 2023

Get up to speed here. Here is Abby Patkin at Boston.Com: Following news of mass layoffs and an official inquiry into Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, the famed author is pushing back on allegations of mismanagement from current […]

Boston University Center for Antiracist Research has a lot of money, but virtually nothing to show for it.

John Fea   |  September 21, 2023

$43 million dollars later and Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University appears to be suffering from “disorganization” and “mismanagement.” This comes after diversity expert Eboo Patel turned to the pages of The Chronicle of Higher Education […]