![]() Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race. “In the midst of an ugly Trump regime and a beautiful Baldwin revival, Eddie Glaude has plunged to the profound depths and sublime heights of Baldwin’s prophetic challenge to our present-day crisis.”-Cornel West In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle? ![]() James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. ![]()
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