He taught in the State University of New York system for seven years before taking appointments at Brown University and the University of Florida. Although he was an average student and mostly cared about basketball during high school, Kendi went on to study African American Studies and Magazine Production at Florida A&M University, then earn his PhD in African American Studies from Temple University in 2010. After feeling ostracized in Christian private schools for many years, he attended John Bowne High School in Queens before moving to Virginia with his family, where he graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School (now Unity Reed High School). Kendi was born and raised in Queens, New York. As he recounts in How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X.
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