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Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

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Ella Baker, Pragmatism, and Black Democratic Perfectionism

The great civil rights leader was suspicious of charisma, and she had something else in mind.

by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on September 24, 2024
The Vow James Baldwin Made to Young Civil Rights Activists

How James Baldwin confronted America's most exceptional lie.

by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. via Literary Hub on July 28, 2020
The History That James Baldwin Wanted America to See

For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told?

by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. via The New Yorker
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on June 19, 2020

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

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James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere

How the United States terrorizes the rest of the world, Baldwin realized abroad, echoed how it terrorized its inhabitants at home.

by Begum Adalet via Public Books on December 16, 2020

Photographic collage of James Baldwin

Bringing It Back to Baldwin

Joel Rhone reviews Eddie Glaude Jr.’s Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

by Joel Rhone via The Drift on October 21, 2020

Semiquincentennial Blues

I am yearning to reject something that is not even being sold to me.

by Mychal Denzel Smith via n+1 on July 3, 2026

Colorful cartoon graphic of George Washington and a Gumby-style Uncle Sam

Scandal, Protest, Goofiness, and Grandeur at the U.S. Bicentennial

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding. The 200th wasn’t exactly smooth sailing.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on March 2, 2026

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