As America prepares to celebrate 250 years since its founding, Kai Wright sits down with Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude Jr. to talk about the conflicts at the heart of the American project. Glaude argues that black Americans played a key role in the founding of the country, but their presence is a constant reminder that the American imagination – the story of a white republic – does not exist. He and Kai discuss how the Trump administration has normalized white supremacist rhetoric and the myriad ways the president is trying to whitewash history. book of glaude America, USA: How race casts a shadow over the nation’s anniversaryIt’s out now.
