Ibram X Kendi named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020

FAMU Alumnus Ibram X Kendi, a New York Times best-selling author has been included on TIME Magazines’100 Most Influential People of 2020 list.  Kendi, director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, is author of the 2019 best-selling book “How To Be an Antiracist” and “Stamped From The Beginning”, a National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, and spread.

Kendi, 37, has been called one of the most important scholars of his generation.  He is a 2004 graduate of FAMU with a dual major in Journalism and African American Studies.