ibram x kendi it's the founding director of the boston university center for anti racist research. more where that came from. i'm going to continue the conversation with imani perry and ibram x kendi, and in a few days, you will be able to stream the extended cut of this on peacock. that's it for me. thank you, for catch me back here 10 am eastern on velshi. remember, velshi is available as a podcast for this weekend just getting. up maybe your in california or phoenix or something. you can listen to the entire show on the go at anytime. subscribers listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. stay right where you are, my friends cory coffin picks up our news coverage right now. age right now. >> good morning and welcome in, i'm cory coffin in new york. we are one week into the new republican house majority, and as promised, president biden is already under investigation by a correctional committee. the house judiciary committee has launched an investigation into biden's potential mishandling of classified documents, including one marked with the highest level of classification.

ibram x. kendi and nic stone.racist," that means you are already banned in florida. [laughter] it is funny when we talk about race because we live in a country that, the congress and senate voted for the juneteenth bill. but we're the same nation that doesn't want to talk about slavery. they will have robert e. lee day on the same days. so i think when it comes to racism, i think that a lot of people believe that if they are not actively saying the n-word or doing or saying bigoted things, that means they are not racist. but in our children, we can see the potential of things that we hope we can realize but probably never will. so that is an angle i think that is probably substantive. >> yeah, i think when it comes to children -- i have two of my own -- and it's important for me that they enter a world that they feel empowered to change, which is why we wrote this book. so dr. kendi wrote his memoir years ago and i latched onto it, slid into his dms and asked if i could do a young readers' version because it is im

ibram x. kendi. [applause] >> thank you, thank you so much. let me first congratulate truly all the finalist for the national book awards. i was here, six years ago and that was one of the most memorable nights of my life. less about what happened to me and more so what i witnessed. i witnessed the late congressman john lewis. when a national book award. [applause] in his victory speech he talked about how when he was grown up in segregated alabama, he was not allowed to attend and to go to his local library. and he talked about his started cheering up about his journey, the journey of a boy who couldn't go to the library to a man and an icon who won the national book award. i was also here with my six month old daughter at the time, imani. and now she's six years old. and recently, she came home she started first grade, she expressed she didn't like first grade. i'm just done with first grade. a week later, she came home excited about being in first grade. we asked are, why, why do you so excited now. and she told us, it's because she now, be

ibram x kendi. dr. kendi. dr. kendi is andrew w mellon, professor in humanities at boston university and the founding director of the university's center for anti-racist research. he's a contributing writer to the atlantic, a cbs news racial justice contributor and the author of many highly acclaimed books, including stamped from the beginning the definitive story of history. the definitive history of racist ideas in america winner of the national book award for nonfiction in 2020. time magazine, named after kennedy, one of the hundred most influential people in the world and he was awarded a 2021 macarthur fellowship. his two latest books were the instant new york times bestseller, getting tired of reading all your. new york times bestsellers how to raise an anti racist, and the picture book racism. it gives me great to welcome dr. ibram j. kennedy. thank you. thank you so much. it's let me first congratulate lee truly all the finalist for the national book awards. i was here indeed six years ago and that was one