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An Evening with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award winner, historian, and one of the country's leading antiracist voices, will discuss his book, How To Be An Antiracist.

This event is at capacity, and we are no longer taking registrations!  If you have registered, and your plans have changed for this evening, please cancel your registration to accommodate as many attendees as possible.

For those who cannot register at this time, please check back on Sunday evening for updated capacity information!

“the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind" -The New York Times

The book asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.  An essential book for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step of contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society.

Dr. Kendi is the founding director of Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research and was recently named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. 

Kendi is a contributor writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is also a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study at Harvard University. 

Kendi is the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016. Kendi is also the author #1 New York Times bestsellers Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and 2020's Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. 

This conversation will be moderated by reporter and author Natalie Moore.  Moore covers segregation and inequality for Chicago’s WBEZ. Her enterprise reporting has tackled race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Moore’s work has been broadcast on the BBC, Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and a Buzzfeed best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation.   

Moore's work has been published in The Chicago Sun-Times, Essence, Ebony, The Chicago Reporter, Bitch, In These Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian. She is the recipient of the Chicago Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award for reporting on Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods, a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, the 2017 Voice of Progressive Journalism Award and other professional honors.

Thank you to the three independent booksellers who are supporting this event through online sales. While the vitual event will not include book signing, we encourage you to browse the selection of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's titles as well as Natalie Moore's acclaimed books here:

The Book Stall:

https://www.thebookstall.com/books-dr-ibram-x-kendi-and-natalie-moore

Semicolon Bookstore:

https://www.semicolonchi.com/an-evening-with-dr-ibram-kendi

The Book Bin:

https://bookbinnorthbrook.indielite.org/book/9780525509288 

Presented by Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Aurora Public Library District, Deerfield Public Library, Glencoe Public Library, Highland Park Public Library, Lake Villa District Library, Northbrook Public Library, Schaumburg Township District Library, Skokie Public Library, Vernon Area Public Library, and Wilmette Public Library.

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