The Ballard House Project, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr. Keynote Speech 60th Year Commemoration
September 26, 2023
Birmingham, Alabama
“… a son of the south; member of Morehouse College’s Board of Trustees; scholar; NYT best-selling author; nationally recognized thought leader; James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor; and former Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, 2009-2023”
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Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (b. September 4, 1968) is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in and former chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Glaude is the author of several important books including Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, which has been described as “one of the most imaginative, daring books of the twenty-first century.” His most recent book, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, was released on June 30, 2020. Imani Perry describes the book as “precisely the witness we need for our treacherous times." He is also a columnist for Time Magazine and an MSNBC contributor on programs like Morning Joe, and Deadline Whitehouse with Nicolle Wallace. He also regularly appears on Meet the Press on Sundays. He hails from Moss Point, Mississippi, a small town on the Gulf Coast, and is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
