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Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be a (Young) Antiracist”; Plus, Paolo Bacigalupi on “The Water Knife”

0:08 — Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the center for antiracist research at Boston university, where he’s also Andrew W. Mellon professor in the humanities. His newest book is for kids: it’s an adaptation of his memoir, now entitled How to be a (young) antiracist. 

0:33 — Paolo Bacigalupi, Hugo-, Nebula-, and Locus Award-winning sci-fi author, discussing his 2015 book The Water Knife, a dystopian novel set in the midst of a devastating drought afflicting the Colorado River Basin.