In a new two-part podcast, journalist Bill Moyers talks to Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr., author of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, called “one of the most daring books of the 21st century,” a “book for the ages,” “bracing,” and “unrelenting.” The book’s power comes because the author does not begin with “pristine principles or with assumptions about our inherent goodness.” Rather, its view of democracy, as he writes, “emerges out of an unflinching encounter with lynching trees, prison cells, foreclosed homes, young men and women gunned down by police and places where ‘hope, unborn, had died.’” Continue reading
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