Please join us on Thursday, Oct. 3, 4-5:30 p.m. in Celeste Theatre in Cornerstone to hear esteemed author and political commentator Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. present a picture of race and democracy that is colored by current events and framed by African American history. Bearing witness to the difficult truth in our country today, Dr. Glaude lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, memory, and what we all must ask of ourselves to call forth a new America. Along the way, Glaude shares stories about the transformative power of imagination. “We must resist those voices who urge us to settle for the world as it is and call us to imagine a better world,” Glaude says.

Glaude is an author, political commentator, public intellectual, and passionate educator who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. He is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and former Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, and a member of the Morehouse College Board of Trustees. He frequently appears in the media as a columnist for TIME Magazine and an MSNBC contributor.

This event is sponsored by CC’s Department of Political Science, and is the second event in the 2024 Sondermann Presidential Symposium: Democracy in This Moment. Thank you to the Fred A. Sondermann Memorial Fund, Marianne Lannon Lopat Memorial Lecture Fund, and McHugh Fund for their generous support of this event. For more information, visit our webpage.  

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