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,

Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research is closing as Ibram X. Kendi starts a new center at Howard University.

Professor Ibram X. Kendi is packing up shop and leaving Boston University, but the antiracism grift is not over yet. On Friday, Newsweek reported Kendi will be leaving the faculty of BU and the Center for Anti-Racism located on campus led by Kendi will shut down.