Eddie Glaude Jr is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, New Jersey.  He is one of the most pre-eminent voices in the US on the American experience, particularly in looking at black communities, the country’s historical relationship with race and the challenges democracy faces. He is a regular contributor to a MSNBC and a range of news networks and the is the author of a number of acclaimed books such as Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America. His latest book is a New York Times Bestseller, Begin Again : James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today. It searing indictment of racial injustice in America – inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin that takes it’s title from a Baldwin quote, ‘Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again’.

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