A woman on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington holds a billowing “Black Lives Matter” flag. <\/span>Alex Brandon\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Just a few years ago,<\/span> historian and activist Ibram X. Kendi seemed to be everywhere. At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, he became one of the leading voices on racism in America\u2014and particularly what he described as antiracism. In 2019, his book How to Be an Antiracist<\/a><\/em> became a bestseller. And later, just months after the death of George Floyd\u2014a Black man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis\u2014Kendi founded the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, receiving $55 million in funding.<\/p>\n
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