The historian Ibram X Kendi, one of the foremost scholars of race in the US, was born in Queens, New York, in 1982. He earned a PhD in African American studies from Temple University and now runs the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University. A MacArthur “genius grant” recipient, Kendi is the author of Stamped from the Beginning, which won a National Book award in 2016, and the 2020 bestseller How to Be an Antiracist, which comes out in paperback on 2 February (Vintage). He lives in Boston with his wife, Sadiqa Edmonds Kendi, a paediatric emergency physician, and their daughter.
