Ibram X. Kendi is a New York Times best-selling author, an award-winning historian of racism and Professor of History and International Relations as well as Founding Director of the Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of the award-winning The Black Campus Movement and his writing has appeared in Black Perspectives , Salon , The New York Times , The Huffington Post and The Root. Before entering academia, he trained and worked as a journalist.