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Boston University is closing its Center for Antiracist Research as its founding director, scholar Ibram X. Kendi, leaves for another job. Why it matters: BU's decision, which comes amid a federal backlash to programs related to diversity,

ANALYSIS: Kendi’s center has significantly scaled back following massing spending with little results. He will now create something similar at Howard University.

Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi is leaving Boston University, where he served as founding director of the Center for Antiracist Research, to join the faculty of Howard University in Washington D.C.

Historian and writer Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote the bestseller “How to Be an Antiracist” and led a center on the subject at Boston University, will join Howard University’s faculty.

The author of the famed “How to Be An Anti-Racist” (among other titles) is coming to the historically Black university in D.C. and launching a research institute.

Boston University will close its Center for Antiracist Research after less than five years with the departure of founder Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi is leaving BU to join Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington, D.C., both schools announced Thursday.