Ibram X. Kendi, the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, will leave the school for a new role at Howard University and BU's center will close.

X. Kendi, the scholar of anti-racism who rose to prominence during the social justice movement that swept the nation after the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, is leaving Boston University after five years.

Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi is leaving Boston University, where he served as founding director of the Center for Antiracist Research, to join the faculty of Howard University in Washington D.C.

Historian and writer Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote the bestseller “How To Be an Antiracist” and led a center on the subject at Boston University, will join Howard University’s faculty.