A Native Son
Eddie, Jafari Sinclaire Allen, William J. Barber, II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove“We can be better people, a better country, if we dare to imagine…”
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James Baldwin, “In Search of a Majority: An Address” (1960) reprinted in NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME
I think this speech is worth reading or rereading in this moment as the hoods come off and the pursuit of white power has made itself known explicitly.
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I am supposed to speak this evening on the goals of American society as they involve...
Weekly Wrap Up - May 8, 2026
Summary
In this Weekly Wrap Up, Eddie highlights the collapse of Middle East ceasefires and condemns a barrage of domestic attacks on democracy. He calls out the administration’s threats against the press, weaponized DOJ indictments, an...
2026 Book Tour Dates
I am so excited about my new book, America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries. As we celebrate 250 years since the founding, it’s time to have some difficult conversations about how the country has arrived at this crisis m...
Name The Devil
The Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Chief Justice Roberts has finally achieved what he has dedicated his career to doing, and the country is now poised to return to what it was: a herrenvolk democracy (a contradictio...
Weekly Wrap Up - May 1, 2026
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In this Weekly Wrap Up, Eddie addresses the collapsing ceasefire in Lebanon, highlighting deadly exchanges between Hezbollah and the IDF alongside escalating settler violence in Jerusalem. Domestically, he confronts a devastati...
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Professor | http://prh.com/AmericaUSA
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.
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.
Author, preacher, moral activist. Latest book: WHITE POVERTY
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