The National Institutes of Health (NIH) deleted a recording of talk given to its staffers by leading “anti-racism” scholar Ibram X. Kendi in 2022, according to internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Kendi spoke at the 2022 iteration of NIH’s “Big Read” event to discuss his best-selling book “How to Be an Antiracist,” according to an NIH webpage. His speaking arrangement came with conditions, however, as documents obtained by Open The Books and provided to the DCNF show that Kendi’s publisher mandated that the recording of the event be deleted after 30 days and that precautions be taken to avoid the recording from being copied or downloaded.
“NIH has neither produced a copy of the video nor a clear understanding of whether it’s been retained for the public record,” Open The Books spokesperson Christopher Neefus told the DCNF. “We’re…
