Historian Ibram X. Kendi To Speak At Online Davidson Event

DAVIDSON, NC — Historian, scholar and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi is set to hold an online webinar for the Davidson College community Sept. 22, the college announced.

During the event, Kendi will engage in a conversation with Davidson College President Carol Quillen via Zoom, the school said. The Reynold's Lecture event is set to begin at 7:30 p.m.

Here's what the college says about Kendi:

"Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He is a National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author, as well as a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He will become the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

"Kendi is the author of The Black Campus Movement, which won the 2012 W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize, and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2016.

"His third book, How to Be an Antiracist, was a #1 New York Times Bestseller and made several Best Books of 2019 lists."

The online event is free, however is limited to 7,500 attendees and will not be recorded, the school said.

Members of the general public may register for the event here.