Ibram Kendi’s ‘Center for Antiracist Research’ Shutting Down at Boston University, He’s Moving to DC
“The center’s 12 staff members will be employed through June 30 and will receive support with transitions”
Ibram Kendi’s ‘anti-racism’ think tank at Boston University is closing shop. The organization has been struggling with problems for years. In 2023, staffers accused the project of being exploitative and it was also investigated for alleged mismanagement of funds.
In the same year, it was reported that Boston University had loaned $600,000 to a trust run by Kendi’s brother-in-law.
BREAKING: Ibram X. Kendi's "Center for Antiracist Research" is permanently shutting down and laying off its staff. Kendi's center hoovered up tens of millions of dollars in grants, but produced virtually no work. Another BLM-era grift comes to a close. pic.twitter.com/LLpqP5KHFg
— Christopher F. Rufo
(@realchrisrufo) January 30, 2025
Kendi is now taking his group to the historically black Howard University in Washington, DC.
WBUR reports:
Scholar and author Ibram X. Kendi leaving BU for Howard University
Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi is leaving Boston University and the Center for Antiracist Research to join the faculty of Howard University in Washington D.C. this summer.
BU’s Center for Antiracist Research, which Kendi founded in 2020, will close at the end of June, according to an article in a university publication that posted Thursday afternoon. The center’s 12 staff members will be employed through June 30 and will receive support with transitions, according to the article.
In an Instagram post Thursday afternoon, Kendi said his upcoming move to Howard marks “the most fulfilling choice” he has made.
“I have had my eye on Howard my entire career, studying its history, witnessing what this university means to the culture,” Kendi wrote, linking to a Washington Post article that first reported the news.
Kendi did not immediately respond to request for comment.
At Howard, a historically Black university, Kendi will head the Howard Institute for Advanced Study, a new interdisciplinary institute tasked with addressing inequities through research on racism, climate change and technology, according to a media release from the university. It will also house a residential fellowship program and an annual international class of fellows who will explore topics related to race and racism, his Instagram post detailed.
Professor Jacobson commented on Twitter/X:
He's going to set up a new institute @HowardU where he can leech off of a new set of donors and funders. https://t.co/C7NlMN19U8
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) January 31, 2025
The Washington Post article on this reads like a press release:
Like Hannah-Jones and Coates, Kendi has received a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant and produced high-impact work on urgent questions about race in America. Following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist” catapulted to the top of bestseller lists. In the book, he argues that ideas and policies are either racist or anti-racist, meaning they are actively working to challenge racism.
Kendi previously taught at another institution in D.C. He was a professor at American University and served as director of its Antiracist Research and Policy Center.
In 2020, Kendi moved to Boston University and founded its Center for Antiracist Research amid the racial reckoning that Floyd’s death helped spur.
It’s hilarious that after producing absolutely nothing of value whatsoever in five years, despite taking in millions of dollars from gullible liberals, Kendi is going straight to another school to run the same playbook back again. Impressive level of grift. https://t.co/60VYG2CecC
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) January 31, 2025
The grift must go on, right?
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Another race hustler exposed. Grifters gotta grift…
Along with Al Sharpton.
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I would like to see the Trump administration try to recover some of that grant money.
He fits right in there in DC.
Actually, I take that back. I’m not sure this guy’s head can fit in DC. It’s only a 10 x 10 mile district.
The “Center for Antiracist Research” will be operating in DC under the more accurate name: “The Center for Using Racism to Enrich Ibram X. Kendi”
What exactly does “support with transitions” mean?
Surgeons are standing by!
Leftists being leftists, it means that people will be told to f88k off at the end of the transition period. They are no longer useful to the greater cause.
Generally it means help with sales of homes, help with moving expenses, and help with finding/financing housing at the new location.
However, I’m old so it may not mean thar any more.
“Have hustle, will travel.”
Don’t tell him, but his ticket actually reads “Guantanamo, with a change of helicopters in DC.”
Another race hustler.
It’s not as though Kendi ever hid his grift, so I guess all we can do is marvel at this new set of donors continuing the fantasy that his groups do any actual work or perform useful research.
The only question would be; is his new appointment at Howard due to gullible morons or to cynical co-grifters?
My bet would be on the latter. How much federal money is Howard sucking up, Elon?
Take your pick. Be it white supremacy, DEI, climate, etc., Mr. Washington described the class of activists well:
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Booker T. Washington (1911). “My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience”
Al Sharpie?
Booker T. knew them well.
Happy Black History Month!
It’s also my birth month. Great. Just great.
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I wonder if he will add additional braids to his do or maybe he’ll add a dashiki to his ensemble? Then he’ll be ready for a new more black hustle.
I suppose the Kente cloth fell out of favor as Dhimmi-crats’ sartorial accoutrement of choice for pandering to black Americans, after the House and Senate Dhimmi-crats received much-deserved scorn and mockery for their utterly self-debasing, shameful and contemptible act of kneeling in the Capitol rotunda, during the 2020 Dhimmi-crat insurrection.
I assume the vile Kendi already owns a few keffiyeh scarves, to show solidarity with the goose-stepping, genocidal Arab invaders from Arabia (Fakestinians).
He can always take a tip from Rachel Dolezal and launch an OnlyFans.
Anti racist?
Dr MLK was an anti racist and his dream was that people would be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin. This is why he was a Republican. The Democratic Party is b built on racism and racism is it’s core value.
Absence of think caused it to tank?
Very witty!