CRCI Reading Group Interviews Ibram X. Kendi

On June 21^st, the Liberation Literacy reading group at Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI) interviewed National Book Award winner and historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi about his book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.

Liberation Literacy is a racial justice reading group that meets weekly at Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland. The group, founded and directed by Dr. Garrett Felber, a scholar of 20th-century African American history, is a combination of incarcerated and outside students, and raises racial justice literacy through weekly readings and discussions and reimagines the boundaries of community across the prison walls through conversation and dialogue.  They began a Freedom Library at CRCI, which now features nearly 500 books on the African diaspora and topics related to social justice.

Ibram X. Kendi is currently an assistant professor of African American History at the University of Florida. An intellectual and social movement Africana studies historian, Kendi studies racist and antiracist ideas and movements.

Ibram X. Kendi https://www.ibramxkendi.com/

Garrett Felber  http://www.garrettfelber.com/

Stamped from the Beginning  http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2016_nf_kendi-stamped-from-the-beginning.html#.WVJPwumQzyQ

Purchase books for CRCI Freedom Library: https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3BB71IFPHC0BS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_ws_BRiryb5QS3Z94