Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Presents Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, in Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and author of Democracy in Black, presents the paperback edition of his prize-winning Begin Again, one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. In these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography—drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews—with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism’s continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America. Glaude is joined in conversation by Robert Jones, Jr., creator of the social justice social media community Son of Baldwin and author of the highly acclaimed debut novel The Prophets.

Thursday, July 29, 2021
6 p.m. EDT
LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZUXp4fkFQu6WxQYKMD3eJA