In November of 2016, just eight days after Donald J. Trump won the U.S. Presidency, a relatively unknown Black historian, Ibram X. Kendi, received the National Book Award for a nearly six-hundred-page tome titled “Stamped from the Beginning,” a book claiming to trace the history of racist ideas in the U.S. In that moment, Kendi’s book seemed to offer some explanation for the shock of Trump’s victory: centuries of American racism and decades of toxic backlash politics. Kendi’s follow-up book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” sold more than a million copies as the country grappled with the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. By the end of Trump’s term, Kendi had become a household name.In the tumult of 2020, Time magazine declared Kendi to be one of t...
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