Presenting: Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Presenting a sneak peek of Pushkin’s newest show, Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi. On Be Antiracist, Dr. Kendi discusses policies and practices that sustain injustice in our society, and how we can dismantle racism to build a just, equitable world. To kick off the season, Malcolm called up Dr. Kendi for a conversation on racism, bridging divides, and the power of podcasting. Stay tuned after their conversation for an excerpt of an upcoming episode featuring economic and social policy expert Heather C. McGhee. Dr. Kendi and McGhee discuss the “zero sum” world view, and what racism really costs us as a society. To hear more Be Antiracist, visit http://podcasts.pushkin.fm/gladwellkendi

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:11.2	Hey revisionist history listeners, it's Malcolm.
0:14.3	To tide you over until season six debuts on June 24th,
0:18.5	I wanted to share a recent conversation I had
0:21.4	with the newest member of our Pushkin family,
0:23.8	Dr. Ibrum X. Kendi, honestly, he needs no introduction.
0:28.0	At 34, he was the youngest person ever
0:31.0	to win the National Book Award for nonfiction.
0:33.5	That was in 2016 for his book Stamped from the Beginning.
0:37.4	It is, as the subtitle says,
0:39.4	a definitive history of racist ideas in America.
0:42.8	Dr. Kendi's next book, which I'm sure you've all heard of,
0:46.0	how to be an anti-racist, is a brilliant look
0:48.9	at how we dismantle the structures that racism creates.
0:52.9	Through his lens, we can see how to stop settling
0:55.7	for a broken system and help build a more just equitable world.
1:00.7	Ibrum Kendi continues that conversation with his new podcast,
1:04.7	which is the first co-production between Pushkin and I Heart Radio.
1:09.2	In B. Anti-racist, he interviews public figures
1:12.5	like Julian Castro, Jamal Hill, Don Levin,
1:15.4	the author Heather Seemigee, and prison abolitionist,
1:18.7	Mariam Kaba.
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