31 Facts About Eddie Glaude

Eddie Glaude is the James S McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where he is the Chair of the Center for African American Studies and the Chair of the Department of African American Studies.

Eddie Glaude was born in 1968 in Moss Point, Mississippi into a working-class family.

Eddie Glaude's mother was a shipyard custodian who later served as the team's supervisor, while his father was a postman.

Eddie Glaude was raised at St Peter's Apostolic Catholic Church in Pascagoula, a parish administered by the Josephites.

At 15 years old, Eddie Glaude became the first Black Youth Governor of Mississippi.

In 1984, Eddie Glaude went to San Francisco to be a part of the Mississippi Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention.

Eddie Glaude graduated from high school at age 16 and in 1989 received his bachelor's degree from Morehouse College, where he served as the Student Government President.

Eddie Glaude sees these three fields as intertwined as they collectively shape aspects of political life and views of democracy.

Eddie Glaude was a founding member and senior fellow of the Jamestown Project.

In 2015, Eddie Glaude received an honorary doctor of human letters from Colgate University.

Eddie Glaude began his teaching career at Bowdoin College where he served as chair of the Department of Religion.

Eddie Glaude is passionate about the media because he sees this institution as playing a key role in maintaining a healthy democracy.

In 2007, Eddie Glaude delivered the Founder's Day Convocation keynote address during the 140th anniversary of Morehouse College.

In 2010, Eddie Glaude published The Black Church is Dead in the Huffington Post, where he argues that the role of the Black church has changed throughout time as Black members have increasingly integrated into white communities.

Up until Tavis Smiley halted the event in 2010, Eddie Glaude served as a regular contributor and panelist for the annual State of the Black Union.

Eddie Glaude currently serves as a contributor to the Huffington Post.

At Princeton University, Eddie Glaude primarily teaches two undergraduate level courses, both within the Department of African American Studies.

Beyond teaching under-graduate level courses, Eddie Glaude advises a select number of students majoring in African American Studies on their senior theses.

Eddie Glaude's work reveals the importance of African American religion, which encompasses a range of religious doctrines, in that it serves as an avenue to respond to oppressive conditions and varying forms of institutional discrimination African Americans face.

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Eddie Glaude argues Black religion and the workings of political organizations of Black Americans are linked.

Eddie Glaude focuses on Black religious attitudes and looks at how these attitudes tie the Black community together.

Eddie Glaude argues that if one wants to understand Black life within America, one must study and pay attention to African American religion.

Eddie Glaude focus on Black souls and how they try to navigate and find identity in white society.

Eddie Glaude uses three examples: conjure, African American Christianity, and African American Islam.

Finally, Eddie Glaude argues who we take ourselves to be and how we understand ourselves as moral agents often guides how we engage in politics and in that same vein, the sorts of choices we make while engaging in politics fundamentally shape who we take ourselves to be.

Eddie Glaude sees this idea as insidious because it perpetuates the belief that America is incapable of wrong.

Eddie Glaude intervenes in a long dialogue with Cornel West about what it means to be a Black intellectual in the context of a neoliberal academy.

In 2017, Eddie Glaude mainly discusses what Obama's legacy is and he makes appearances on NBC's Meet the Press where he analyzes Trump's inaugural year in office.

Once Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States, Eddie Glaude began to comment on how the Biden administration was addressing immigration, police militarization, the rise of mass shootings, and life in a post-pandemic world.

Between 2020 and now, Eddie Glaude has visited universities across the United States where he offers lectures, gives commencement speeches, and participates in panel discussions or conferences.