Dr. Ibram X. Kendi in Conversation with Zain Velji
It was an honour to host Ibram X. Kendi on April 14, 2026, and Calgary brought the energy, curiosity, and love to this conversation.
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, one of the world’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars. In his new book, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age, the internationally bestselling author of How to Be An Antiracist offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age—and how we can free ourselves from it.
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