An Evening with Eddie S. Glaude Jr. in conversation with Dr. Tameka Hobbs

Author photo by Sameer A. Khan.

🎟️ Please note: Tickets are REQUIRED. Each ticket admits two (2) guests into the venue and includes one (1) copy of America, U.S.A. ($30 + tax). Books will be handed out upon entry. Additional books will be available for sale at the event. Can't make the event?

Centered around the major celebrations of America’s milestone birthdays across 250 years of history, America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries(Crown, on sale May 26), shows how we have become trapped in cycles of chaos, violence, and erasure over the country’s refusal to face its double consciousness around race and freedom—a cycle inaugurated by the founding itself and which has played out in grand and often terrifying fashion at all of America’s major anniversaries, which steer us back toward the mythology meant to disguise the truth.

Deliberately formulated and beautifully written, America, U.S.A. is a magnificently complex combination of lessons and voices—from W.E.B. DuBois and John Dos Passos to Herman Melville and Martin Luther King, Jr.—that, together, paint a sprawling and honest tableau of the United States, its complicated past, and ever more tenuous future.

America, U.S.A. is a live wire and a shining meditation on how we must reckon with a grim past in order to strive for the better angels of our future. On the eve of the nation’s 250th birthday, with chaos descending once again, I can’t think of a better guide through this moment and its impossibly high stakes than Eddie Glaude, a powerful voice of conscience in our tumultuous world. He pulls no punches, calling on us to interrogate our conceptions of innocence and freedom and the stories we tell ourselves about our past and present.

One of the nation's most prominent scholars, Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., is an educator, author, political commentator and public intellectual who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. His writings, including Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul; In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America; his New York Times bestseller, Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own; and We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For take an exhaustive look at Black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States, and the challenges we face as a democracy. Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in African American Studies at Princeton University. He is also on the Morehouse College Board of Trustees. He frequently appears in the media as an MSNBC contributor on programs such as “Morning Joe” and “Deadline: White House” with Nicolle Wallace. Glaude is a native of Moss Point, Mississippi.

Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs is a historian, author, and social justice leader dedicated to amplifying Black history and empowering communities through education, storytelling, and dialogue. She serves as the Library Regional Manager of Broward County Library’s African American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC), one of the nation’s leading cultural institutions.

An award-winning scholar, her book Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home has been widely recognized, and her expertise has been featured in several acclaimed documentaries. In 2024, she was named one of Library Journal’s 50 Movers & Shakers, and her innovative programs have earned national commendations.
A sought-after speaker and moderator, Dr. Hobbs inspires audiences with her insights on history, racial equity, and community engagement. She is also the founding president of the South Florida Branch of ASALH and an active board member of South Florida People of Color.

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