Working Class Does Not Equal White
In her new book, Blair LM Kelley explores an overlooked history: what it means to be a Black worker in the time since slavery.
Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the university’s Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of several books, including the National Book Award–winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, How to Raise an Antiracist, and the international best seller How to Be an Antiracist. In 2020, Time named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
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