Ibram Kendi Reportedly Launching New Center at Howard U. This Month
“Kendi is also bringing over The Emancipator, a publication focused on racial issues, from Boston University.”
This guy has to keep the whole ‘anti-racism’ grift going somehow.
The College Fix reports:
Ibram Kendi’s new center reportedly launching this month at Howard U.
Ibram Kendi’s new center is reportedly launching this month at Howard University, according to his spokesman.
The “antiracist” advocate officially began his new job at the historically black university in Washington D.C. in August.
Since then, details about his new center have remained sparse – the Institute for Advanced Study does not currently have its own website beyond a fundraising link.
It is not yet listed among Howard’s other think tanks on a “Research Centers & Institutes” page for graduate students or its main “Centers & Institutes” page.
Kendi is also bringing over The Emancipator, a publication focused on racial issues, from Boston University.
Howard University media relations director Carol Wilkerson referred questions about the institute to a spokesman for Kendi.
“We look forward to launching The Emancipator and the Institute’s website at the beginning of next year,” the spokesman told The Fix at the end of 2025.
The Emancipator is set to launch in the new year – it announced the hiring of a new managing editor in mid-December. Originally, the publication was set to launch in November of last year.
The spokesman did not answer whether there had been progress on internship or fellowship opportunities Kendi had previously announced, or whether the professor had been meeting with students and faculty to discuss plans for the institute.
The institute will be “dedicated to interdisciplinary study advancing research of importance to the global African Diaspora” with inquiry into topics including “racism, climate change, and disparities,” according to the original announcement from Howard University.
Kendi left Boston University, where he had been a professor since 2020, amid controversy over his leadership of its Center for Antiracist Research.
In August, Kendi told The Fix: “I am looking forward to working with colleagues over the next year to strategically plan, acquire resources, hire staff, and unveil programs, including The Emancipator and our fellowship program.” At the time, he anticipated that starting the institute would take “six months to a year.”
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“The institute will be “dedicated to interdisciplinary study advancing research of importance to the global African Diaspora” with inquiry into topics including “racism, climate change, and disparities,”” Why the emphasis on victimhood? How about an emphasis on accomplishments and contributions to the world’s cultural heritage? It turns out that the per capita wealth of the children of the transatlantic African slaves in the US is higher than that of the equivalent demographic in any other country who also received African slaves as well as the per capita wealth of citizens in African countries themselves. Perhaps, in spite of their slave past and being a minority, the American descendants of African slaves have accomplished a great deal.
This center strikes me as being yet another waste of money and source of distraction. Howard University could do better than to support the likes of Ibram Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Oh look. Mr. “Critical Race Theory” is bringing his racism to the equally racist HBCUs while blithely ignorant of his own rampant racism.
His whole life revolves around hypothetical, hysterical racism that only he, the “expert,” can see.
And the grifting continues…….
Looks like he’s retreated to a “safe space.”
Crayon delivery in 3…2…
He was very good at raising money but then nothing happens. Raising more money is going to be difficult because of his history.
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