Here are 4 things to know about DrIbram and his just-published “How to Raise an Antiracist” ahead of his L.A. Times Book Club conversation on June 22
new book is an intensely personal journey through the birth of his first child and the ways in which fatherhood helped deepen his work.
“Like any parent, like any mother or father, I want to first and foremost protect my child,” the 39-year-old historian and. “And when my daughter was born, I initially thought, or assumed or presumed without necessarily even thinking about it, that the way to protect her was to keep her away, if that’s even possible, from the toxicity of racism.”
Instead, Kendi says his experiences and research have taught him “quite the opposite.” He says it’s never too soon — or too late — to talk with children about race to teach and
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