A Native Son
Eddie, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, William J. Barber, II, Julian Zelizer, Jafari Sinclaire Allen“We can be better people, a better country, if we dare to imagine…”
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Love you, Dad
I first read James Baldwin seriously in graduate school. I must admit, though, he scared me to death. His honesty and vulnerability on the page were a bit too much. I preferred the elegant mask of Ralph Ellison. Emotions hidden behind reaso...
How Have Americans Celebrated Their Past? A Live Conversation with Professor Eddie Glaude, author of America, U.S.A: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversary
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Weekly Wrap Up - June 19, 2026
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In this Weekly Wrap Up, Eddie defends the new U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding as a crucial victory for ending war and saving lives, despite regional escalations by Israel designed to stall peace talks. Turning inward, he v...
The Power of Subversive Joy
When I was a young graduate student in the Religion department at Princeton University, Cornel West drew this distinction between happiness and joy. Happiness is ephemeral, he argued, often driven by and dependent on external circumstances...
Weekly Wrap Up - June 12, 2026
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In this Weekly Wrap Up, Eddie critiques the escalating conflicts in the Middle East and U.S. political leadership, highlighting tensions in Gaza, the West Bank, and Iran, as well as rising inflation and economic anxiety at home....
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Professor | http://prh.com/AmericaUSA
Author, preacher, moral activist. Latest book: WHITE POVERTY
President, Repairers of the Breach, & Founding Director & Professor, Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. Author, WHITE POVERTY, WE ARE CALLED TO BE A MOVEMENT, THE THIRD RECONSTRUCTION, REVIVE US AGAIN, & FORWARD TOGETHER.
Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of The Long View newsletter on Substack. Zelizer, the author and editor of 28 books, is also a columnist for Foreign Policy.
Author of There’s a disco ball between us: a theory of Black gay life (2022), and ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba-- both published by Duke University Press—and the editor of the GLQ special issue Black/Queer/Diaspora.
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