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What Is Empathy and How Do You Cultivate It?

By Vivian Manning-Schaffel — 2018

Our brains may be wired to empathize more with people who look like us, but being more empathetic starts with just listening.

Read on www.nbcnews.com

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Book Talk with Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be an Antiracist”

Ibram X. Kendi is the author of "How to Be an Antiracist." He discusses his recent work with Eugene Scott, a political reporter for the Washington Post’s "The Fix". The two spoke as part of the Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.

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Ibram X. Kendi
2019
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The Difference Between Being “Not Racist” and Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi

There is no such thing as being “not racist,” says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi.

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Ibram X. Kendi
2020
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019

Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span.

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Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
2025
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X.

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Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
2020
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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi: Creating a More Equitable Society Is in White Americans’ Self Interest

The best selling author of “How to Be an Antiracist” and “Antiracist Baby,” Dr. Ibram X. Kendi joins Stephen Colbert to discuss what it takes to call one’s self antiracist, and how he believes it’s in everyone’s interest to end the racist policies that cause inequality in this country.

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Ibram X. Kendi
2020
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X.

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Ibram X. Kendi
2025
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How to Be an Antiracist

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.

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Ibram X. Kendi
2025
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