Inspiration for the Nation What is your vision? with Dr. Eddie Glaude

George Kilpatrick Inspiration for the Nation Inspiration from Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. Overcoming the vision deficit.  Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Chair, Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. James S. McDowell Distingushed Professor. MSNBC contributor. is an intellectual who speaks to the complex dynamics of the American experience.  His most well-known books, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, take a wide look at black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States, and the challenges our democracy face.  He is an American critic in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson.  In his writings, the country’s complexities,  vulnerabilities, and the opportunities for hope come into full view. Hope that is, in one of his favorite quotes from W.E.B Du Bois, “not hopeless, but a bit unhopeful.”