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In Conversation: On James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Original program date: Wed, Nov. 18, 2020
Original location: Null

Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author and James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, weaves biography, memoir, and social and political analysis as he explores James Baldwin’s crucible, a place of hope and guidance in this Trumpian era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Speaking with him is historian and Harvard professor Kenneth Mack, author of The New Black: What Has Changed – and What Has Not – with Race in America.