Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of many books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which was remixed for young adult readers by Jason Reynolds into Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, and adapted into a graphic novel by cartoonist Joel Christian Gill. Dr. Kendi was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant. Find Dr. Kendi online @ibramxk on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.


Nic Stone is an Atlanta native and a Spelman College graduate. Her debut novel for young adults, Dear Martin, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Clean Getaway, the 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year selection Dear Justyce (a sequel to Dear Martin), the Rainbow Book List Top Ten selection Odd One Out, Jackpot, and Shuri: A Black Panther Novel. She is one of the authors in the New York Times bestselling book Blackout, recently optioned for as a new anthology program for Netflix by Barack and Michelle Obama s production company, Higher Ground. Find her online at nicstone.info or @nicstone.

For readers of This Book is Antiracist by Tiffany Jewell and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Ibram X Kendi and Jason Reynolds, TROUBLEMAKER offers an INNOVATIVE FRAMEWORK SPECIFICALLY FOR TEENS that EMPOWERS YOUNG READERS to reassess what it means to live and act in a manner that dismantles racism. Just as Kendi does in the adult edition, TROUBLEMAKER will weave history, science, law, and personal stories to help kids understand complicated concepts about race and help them on their own antiracist journeys. Kendi doesn't talk about being antiracist as something you ARE but something you DO in every choice you make.In collaboration with BESTSELLING CO-AUTHOR NIC STONE, this book is written with teens in mind, and will offer kids a way to have conversations with both their peers and the adults in their life. It will provide POWERFUL PROMPTS for CROSS-GENERATIONAL CONVERSATIONS that center the experiences of young people.Kendi has become TRUSTED AND PROMINENT AUTHORITY ON ANTIRACISM, with four books on The New York Times best seller list on the subject of racism and antiracism.This book speaks to a national reckoning taking place on the racism embedded in our culture. Readers are hungry for books that provide a blueprint for HOW TO CREATE A MORE JUST AND EQUAL SOCIETY -one free of racism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia. This book offers intersectional solutions and new ways to challenge biased behavior.Kendi writes for The Atlantic and is a correspondent at CBS News. He has appeared as a commentator on NBC, CNN,and NPR. He's a thinker and author with AN IMPRESSIVE PLATFORM; he's been profiled in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Publishers Weekly. In 2020, he was named him one of the 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD BY TIME MAGAZINE.With this collaboration, Kendi's academic bonafides join Stone's ability to SPEAK ENGAGINGLY TO TEENS. In Nic Stone, we have a bestselling, award-winning author who is known and BELOVED BY BOOKSELLERS, TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS AND TEEN READERS.His GROWING PROFILE IN CHILDREN'S MEDIA can be seen in the success of ANTIRACIST BABY, which was an instant New York Times bestseller, and has SOLD OVER 450,000 COPIES across formats in six months, and with the success of STAMPED, the young reader's remix of his adult book, co-authored by bestselling author Jason Reynolds. Kendi recently announced he is PARTNERING WITH NETFLIX on adaptations of three of his books, Stamped From the Beginning; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You; and ANTIRACIST BABY. ANTIRACIST BABY will be adapted into a series of musical animated shorts.

The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, TROUBLEMAKER will serve as a guide for kids seeking a way forward in acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling racism and injustice.

The New York Times bestseller HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi is shaping the way a generation thinks about race and racism. TROUBLEMAKER is a dynamic reframing of the concepts shared in the adult book, with young adulthood front and center. Aimed at readers 12 and up, and co-authored by award-winning children s book author Nic Stone, TROUBLEMAKER empowers young readers to help create a more just society. Antiracism is a journey--and now young adults will have a map to carve their own path. Kendi and Stone have revised this work to provide anecdotes and data that speaks directly to the experiences and concerns of younger readers to think critically and build a more equitable world in doing so.