Ibram Kendi

Professor of history and international relations at American University, Director of Anti-racist Research and Policy Center

Professor of history and international relations at American University where his also the founding director of their Anti-racist Research and Policy Center.  He is the author of “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.”

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Conditions for agricultural laborers in the US have been described by the UN as “appalling." But tomato workers in Florida have won their freedom from virtual slave labor.

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Conditions for agricultural laborers in the US have been described by the UN as “appalling." But tomato workers in Florida have won their freedom from virtual slave labor.

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