Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is an African American author and founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. He won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which was published by Nation Books. He is also the author of the important works, How to be an Anti-Racist and the pioneering The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972. Dr. Kendi has quickly established himself as one of the most brilliant africologist in the nation.  National Book Award-winning Author of Stamped from the Beginning.