A Jefferson County grand jury indicted Hankison for wanton endangerment in the first degree for bullets that went into other apartments, but not Breonna Taylor’s. This decision prompted Kendi to berate a “racist America,” though he ended by defiantly declaring, “we’ll never stop declaring that our lives matter, that our deaths matter.”
Kendi continued tweeting following his initial reaction:
How to Be an Antiracist became a must-read book for those involved in the Black Lives Matter movement. In it, Kendi discusses concepts of racism and proposes individual actions and systematic changes for battling it in our society. A respected historian noted for his work at American University, this summer he was named the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.
