MALCOLM LIVES! With Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | A 20 Year Anniversary Busboys and Poets Presentation
Date and Time
Sep 11, 2025 6:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Sep 11, 2025 6:00 pm
14th & V
Join award-winning author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi to discuss the first major biography of Malcolm X for young people in more than thirty years
As a youth, Malcolm endured violence, loss, hunger, foster care, racism, and being incarcerated. He emerged from it all to make a lasting impact. As a Black Muslim. As a family man. As a revolutionary. Malcolm's life story shows the promise of every human being. Of you!
To trace Malcolm's childhood and adult years, Kendi draws on Malcolm's stirring oratory style, using repetition and rhetoric. Short, swift chapters echo Malcolm's trademark fast walk. An abundance of never-before-published letters, notes, flyers, photos, extensive source notes, and more give young readers a front-row seat to his life.
One hundred years after his birth in 1925, Malcolm's antiracist legacy lives on in this thoughtful and accessible must-read for all people. For you!
Just like history, Malcolm lives.
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is joining us on the Busboys stage to dive deeper into this “expansive and immersive biography” (Publishers Weekly). Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and Dr. Kendi will be signing following the program.
This event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of MALCOLM LIVES! will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is in person and will be livestreamed.
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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is a National Book Award-winning author of books for adults and children, including New York Times bestsellers like Stamped From the Beginning, Stamped for Kids, How to Raise an Anti-Racist, and Goodnight Racism. Dr. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities at Boston University, and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
BOOK DETAILS
Malcolm Lives!
The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers
By Ibram X. Kendi
May 13, 2025 | Hardcover, 400 pages, $19.99
