![]() ![]() Here he got the opportunity to meet Jesse Jackson and Mario Coumo. In 1984, Glaude went to San Francisco to be a part of the Mississippi Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention. This opportunity was awarded to him through a YMCA program in Mississippi that invited students to the state capitol for a couple of days to assist in the duties of running the state government. At 15 years old, Glaude became the first Black Youth Governor of Mississippi. He was raised at St Peter's Apostolic Catholic Church in Pascagoula, a parish administered by the Josephites. His mother was a shipyard custodian who later served as the team's supervisor, while his father was a postman. Glaude was born in 1968 in Moss Point, Mississippi into a working-class family. His most recent book Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own won the 2021 Stowe Prize. As a public intellectual committed to American pragmatism and trained in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Glaude aims to think pragmatically about African American life and more broadly, to think philosophically about questions surrounding identity, agency, and history. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where he is also the Chair of the Center for African American Studies and the Chair of the Department of African American Studies. (born September 4, 1968) is an American academic. ![]() Glaude speaking to the City Club of Cleveland in 2017.Įddie S. ![]()
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