One of the defining features of being anti-racist is having the capacity to really truly self-reflect,

to be self-critical, to recognize that being anti-racist isn't a destination, it's a journey.

And particularly if you're starting the journey as an adult, it's hard to imagine we're not going to make mistakes.

One of the things I have come to believe during the now 10-year journey of Good Life Project

and also my life more broadly is that there truly is no individual good life without there also being a more collective and inclusive path for a societal good life.

We are all interconnected and a key part of this more expansive aspiration is about planting seeds, starting with younger generations.

So how do you raise kids to create a more equitable and inclusive society?

One way we're not afraid to acknowledge and discuss beautiful experiences while also addressing hard truths in a way that steepes us in reality invites everyone into the conversation

and compels us from the earliest days to start thinking about and then doing the work needed to create more possibility, equality, and opportunity for all,

regardless of race, socioeconomic status, religion, age, ability, or beyond.

And that's where we're headed with today's guest, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. He's the Andrew W. Mellon professor and humanities at Boston University,

founding director of the BU Center for Anti-Racist Research, a contributing writer at the Atlantic, CBS News, Racial Justice Contributor,

and the host of the B. Anti-Racist Podcast. Dr. Kendi is also the author of many highly clean books including Stent

from the beginning, the definitive history of racist ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction,

making him the youngest ever winner of that award, by the way. He's also produced five straight number one New York Times bestsellers,

including How to Be an Anti-Racist, Anti-Racist Baby, and Stamped, Racism, Anti-Racism, and You, co-author by Jason Reynolds.

In 2020, Time Magazine named Dr. Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

He was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Genius Grant and his new book How to Raise an Anti-Racist.

It takes us into the core ideas around bringing up kids in our roles as caretakers, parents, educators, community members,

in a way that opens their minds, their hearts, and eyes to both our history and to the work still to be done to decrease inequality and increase equality.

So excited to share this conversation with you. I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project.

Congrats on the new book, by the way. It is so deeply wise and needed at this moment in time.

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