glaude jr.liver much more important praise than my own. professor cornell west says, this book is undoubtedly the best treatment we have of baldwin's genius and relevance. glaude's masterpiece puts a smile on baldwin's face from the grave even as baldwin weeps for us in this grim moment. imani perry says, he pushes, prods, and disrobes history, forcing us to face uncomfortable truths and insisting upon our better inheritances. glaude's stunningly crafted prose, incisive, vulnerable, and beautiful, is as breathtaking as his brilliance. and walter isaacson says, eddie glaude weaves together a biography, a meditation, a literary analysis, and a moral essay on america. like baldwin's own essays and books, it is at times both loving and angry, challenging and uplifting, and always beautiful. joining our discussion now is professor eddie s. glaude jr., the chairman of the african-american studies department at princeton university. professor glaude, always an honor to have you, all the more so now tha

we will get to professor glaud at the end of the hour, and i hope we will return to the subject of his book in future shows. >>> also with us tonight, alabama senator doug jones, who spoke with dr. anthony fauci today, and who will also give us his reaction to intelligence reports indicating that vladamir

glaude and dr.t. >> books are in a shade of blue, practicing na temp and the politics of black america. the professor of -- he's going to correct he -- african-american studies and the chair of the department of african-american studies at princeton university. if that changed he'll have to tell us. dr. west is the professor of the practice of public philosophy. he is the owes of a new podcast, the tightrope. they will be discussing dr. glaude's important and beautifully written book, bin again, just released yesterday, to well-deserved sales. this book is absolutely beautiful. it's forcefully hopeful in a moment where we need that. i'm going to read just a little bit of where this book gets its name from and then we'll start with why now. it begins at the beginning in a crucial and encouraging space. when the dream was and al that love and labor seemed to have come to nothing, the scattered, we knew where we had been, what we had tried to do, who had cracked, gone mad, died or been murdered around

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the national action network and the host of msnbc's politics nation, reverend al sharpton, eddie glaude jr., an msnbc contributor and author of the new book, "begin again: james baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own" and historian john meacham, an msnbc contributor and john lewis's official biographer, his upcoming book is called his truth is marching on, john lewis k and the power of hope. it features an afterward by john lewis. thaun thank you for being with us this morning. rev lend, y reverend you and i spoke last night. one of the things you and i had discussed in those final moments of the show last night is about movements taking time. you told me movements and change take a long time. they require patience and fortitude. you were talking about the distance between the civil rights movement and the movements of today, and that point could have been about john lewis? >> it definitely could have been. in fact, a lot of what i learned i learned from john lewis and the younger crowd that was around dr. king, you have to remember, ali, john lewis was about 11 years youn

earlier today, i spoke with professor eddie glaude, jr.egin again, james baldwin's america and urgent lesson for our own. >> check it out, professor glaude welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> it's my pleasure. my pleasure. >> trevor: first of all can i say how impressed i am that you are at home but you are rocking that suit like you are in a studio somewhere. it is really impressive. >> you know, if you asked me to stand up it will be a different question but i appreciate that. i appreciate it. >> trevor: people always ask me about the books that are behind me here. and yours have been here almost from the ver beginning, i think. you write about race and you write about america's stories and the stories that tell the south about race, james baldwin is notorious for being a writer who wrote and spoke his mind and in many ways tapped into the consciousness of what it means to be black in america. your new book definitelies into his life but his part biography, part analyzing his writing and how it applies to what we're going thr

professor eddie glaude jr. is a lot of things as well. he's a proud morehouse man who earned a ph.d. from princeton, where his name is now on the door. he chairs the african-american studies department, and now he has given us a new title as the author of "begin again: james baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own." professor, it is a pleasure to discuss this work with you, and i'm going to begin where we should on a night like this. what would your subject make of this time right here and right now and the three words "black lives matter"? >> the fact that we would have to say that again, the fact that my son is having to declare those three words again in the face of the country's betrayal, you know, i think there's this line that jimmy used in "the white man's guilt" published in "ebony," where he says, "people who imagine that history flatters them are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin." so he would -- i think he might even be stunned, not shocked but stunned at the brazenness of it all. but the fact that

professor glaude, i'll start with you.wis they all remembered. what leahe represented to them. what he stood to them. for you, professor, who was congressman john lewis? >> without congressman john lewis and others, you know, we wouldn't be possible. i'm sitting here thinking as i'm looking at the coffin, draped in the flag, how many walked into the rotunda with him. cloud of witnesses who didn't have flags draped over their coffins. thinking about sammy young. murdered because he tried to integrate a restroom in tuskegee, alabama, 1966. a comrade of john lewis'. thinking about jimmy lee jackson. murdered in marion, alabama, by a state trooper. a comrade of john lewis. i'm thinking about all of those bodies at the bottom of the mississippi river that nobody knows their names. they're the cloud of witnesses in the capitol rotunda right now. and then the second thing i'm thinking about, brother craig, is you know, at the end of when he had his skull cracked in selma at edmund pettus bridge, they asked him to speak. the only

or eddie glaude.you're talking about mississippi, you're talking about the state that produced greater artists than any other state in the united states. ch wrights and the tennessee williams when it comes to the stage. you've got the blues. then you've got reverend c.l. franklin, where aretha franklin comes from. when you look at that quality. new york, california, florida, don't come close to mississippi which means what? they are the examples against the worst of the country. and that is a source of hope. if you get that kind of genius coming out of mississippi, then you can imagine where we could go if we're courageous enough to heed the call. >> and all the people said, amen. anjenou, what's next? you talk about a confederate culture still in mississippi. what's next? >> well, as malcolm x so brilliantly said when hamer came to harlem in 1964, he said that there is no south. there is no mason-dixon line. there is only america. and so if this flag is coming down in mississippi, the flag needs to c

eddie glaude, thank you, my friend, for say iing and michel who does it all for us. thank you for your reporting. we're grateful. >>> when we come back, with cases on the rise in more than 30 states across this country, dr. deborah birx of the coronavirus task force, says states need to close bars and ban gatherings in a desperate attempt to get the pandemic under control and now just days after baseball's opening day there's a major outbreak on one team that could threaten the entire season. and later, as back to school becomes reality for more american families, there are new questions and new concerns from teachers and from parents about how safe it will be for our kids. stay with us. how safe it will be for our kids stay with us ech: at safelite, we committed to taking care of you and your car. >> tech: we'll fix it right with no-contact service you can trust. >> tech: so if you have auto glass damage, stay safe with safelite. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ rudy got older and suddenly stopped eating...t, then we found freshpet. now rudy's 13,

mike barnicle, eddie glaude jr., and claire mccaskill all back with us, as well. on this story quite literally from day one. and the picture you paint in the book is a methodical effort by this administration, starting just days after president trump's inauguration in 2017, to put in place a policy of family separation. >> it's exactly what i tried to do, willie. thank you very much. good to be on with all of you and good morning to everybody. you know, i was there. i saw it myself with my own eyes, and we all remember, because we experienced it together, the kids under the mylar blankets, supervised by security contractors in a watchtower, sitting there in the cages or the 1,500 boys in that former walmart, 250,000 square feet, allowed outside for two or three hours a day. and while i spoorexperienced th realtime, after having covered it, there were so many questions that i still had. number one, how could this have happened in the united states of america? a systemic separation. what physicians for human rights calls now, today, torture. it meets the clinical de

eddie glaude, congratulations.publishing a book is a huge, huge thing and you've double it this week. maya wily, thank you for being part of this conversation and thank you both for being with us on a holiday friday. the book, begin again. if book stores are open, i'm sure it's there, too. our coverage continues with ari melber. happy fourth weekend. melber happy fourth weekend usaa is made for what's next no matter what challenges life throws at you, we're always here to help with fast response and great service and it doesn't stop there we're also here to help look ahead that's why we're helping members catch up by spreading any missed usaa insurance payments over the next twelve months so you can keep more cash in your pockets for when it matters most and that's just one of the many ways we're here to help the military community find out more at usaa.com to help the military community he used to have gum problems. now, he uses therabreath healthy gums oral rinse with clinically-proven ingredients and his gum pro

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. >> alcindor: eddie glaude is the african american studies department chair at princeton university. what is so offensive about that for people who, maybe don't get it? >> when we read a particular pers, a specific human being as a thug, we're saying there's something inheres in that person that is aligned with criminality. and so their bodies have to be policed and contained an constrained. at the end of thday, what we're seeing here is a kind of white nationalist politics making its way into the ramainstream and an unaduld way. >> alcindor: stoking racialde diviis not new for mr. trump, going back to his entry into politics, says michael gerson. gerson seeved as chief writer for president george w. bush.op >> some think it's more speak on impulse. the president i think when president lincoln was putting together the second inaugural address wiat care and craft in the lacouage and moraent, that that's what rl authenticity is. it's putting thought into something. it's putting craft into something. your mere impulse is not rhetoric. it's just impulse. >> i'm voting against donald trum

people are reading "white fragility," people are reading eddie glaude's book about james baldwin, they're saying white liberals say the right thing then go back to their comfortable existence, not realizing the benefit they enjoy to the detriment of people of color in their own cities. >> good morning and thank you for having me on the show. as you were reading the piece alau alo aloud, i thought, i really did say it, i said it aloud. yes, i don't say it without understanding that these are my people, that i am a white liberal myself. and it is part of the system that makes -- you know, we all have our role to play in the system and we're all trained into our part of the system. but for white liberals indeed, understanding that these systems have been set up for us, for our outcomes, for our convenience, for our comfort, and that until we change the systems to get other outcomes, they will continue to get the same outcomes. that's the big takeaway for me. >> i want to quote from your article about policing where you write, whether we know it or not, white liberal people in blue cities imp

professor eddie glaude gets tonight's last word. the book is "begin again: james baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own." this is absolutely must-read. this is 228 pages where the reader gets to share in the wisdom of james baldwin and eddie glaude. that is a combination that is just unstoppable. thank you very much for joining us again tonight. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> that is tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" starts now. >>> and good evening once again. day 1,265 of the trump administration. 119 days to go until our presidential election. the good news from the president today, he said, we are in a good place. in the real world and in most of the states of this nation, however, the coronavirus is surging. the realities of the trump campaign and the trump presidency are beginning to collide. as the u.s. just today has set a new single-day record of 56,311 new coronavirus cases and within the past few minutes, nbc news has just confirmed the u.s. now has over 3 million confirmed cases. in that respe

university and author of "begin again: james bald kin's america and its urgent lessons for our own," eddie glaude jr. we'll have more from the president's briefing yesterday. covid-19 has now killed more than 150,000 americans. the number is staggering. but the president declared large portions of the country to be corona-free, and he also laments why he doesn't have as high an approval rating as dr. fauci. again, we have passed the 150,000 mark for deaths due to the coronavirus. >>> but first, a staggering interview from national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. you just saw a little bit of it. he sat down with president trump for axios on hbo, where, for the very first time, a reporter presses him on the story that intelligence showed russia was paying the taliban bounties to kill u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. there have been a lot of people who have tried to ask the president about this, but in a briefing or on his way to a helicopter, he always is able to blow them off. here, the president is cornered. and jonathan swan does not stop. here's the full exchange, and it is very revea

eddie glaude from the african-american studies department at princeton university. >> is it fair to view monuments and statues built to view statu monuments built generations ago through this new lens? >> absolutely, i think. >> why? >> confederate monuments is an easy case. those are monuments to an ideology, white supremacy. >> but why now? and is this sort of upheaval new? art historian dr. erin thompson. >> we've been tearing art down we don't agree with anymore. >> it's not just about the old south. christopher columbus tossed into baltimore's inner harbor. george washington and thomas jefferson toppled. we were the first crew on campus since the woodrow wilson school of public policy changed its name over wilson's racist past. how far do you go? do you rename the washington monument? >> they're complicated human beings. so we just have to tell the truth, take what we value and say that aspect of who we were, we hold and reject the others. >> there are no statues of women from history in new york city's central park. >> what if you're a little girl walking down the street and you on

university and author of "begin again: james bald kin's america and its urgent lessons for our own," eddie glaude

eddie glaude, professor, good to see you. congrats on the book.ie, t inspires a discussion. what inspired you to write the book and why baldwin in the subject? >> walking with jimmy baldwin in my own head studying him reading him, his voice an important resource for me over the course of my scholarly career, at llex. i wanted to figure how he picked up the pieces after he fell apart amp the assassination of martin luther king jr., how he continued to have faith we could be yet otherwise. i was despairing, angry and needed to figure how to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the election of donald trump in 2016 and ugliness of the country i've experienced and seen. so baldwin was a resource. i decided to try to walk with him to write with him about this current moment, and in doing so i found my voice. >> hmm. what did you learn? what has changed from then immediately post mlk junior's assassination and now? >> the country's never changed and always changed if that makes sense. a sense america has moments of reckoning when it can be otherwise, p

eddie glaude jr., thank you, and congratulations. eddie's new book is "begin again." that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >>> thanks, joe. hi there. i'm stephanie ruhle. it's friday, july 3rd, the start of a holiday weekend. one that we haven't seen before. because we have been hit by a pandemic that is getting worse every single day. here are the facts this hour. another day, another record high for coronavirus cases across this country. more than 56,000 reported on thursday. that broke the record we set the day before. in all, 2.7 million americans have been infected. nearly 130,000 americans have lost their lives. the speed at which things have gone from bad to worse, staggering. roughly 40 states -- 40 states now showing increasing cases over the last two weeks. the percentage of positive tests has doubled in states like georgia, kansas, montana, missouri and tennessee. it's tripled in nevada and increased five times in idaho. meanwhile, president trump keeps trying to downplay the outbreak that seems ridiculous. here'

eddie glaude, john heilemann, thank you both so much, my dear friends.s wonderful to talk to you. >>> we will all -- i'll speak for all three of us -- be watching our friend rachel maddow tonight with her special guest, mary trump. after the break, another celebration of lives well lived. . >>> lavella jackson was born in the jim crow south. she married early, worked the fields as a sharecropper and had her first child all by the age of 15. in fact, two days after lavella gave birth, the farmer she worked for demanded she get back to the fields. so she and her family left and joined the historic great migration. they ended up in washington, d.c., a city she'd call her home right up until she died of the coronavirus a few weeks ago. according to the "washington post," lavella held a number of jobs over the years. one of them was driving a school bus. she was one of the first women to hold that job in the city's history. she loved her church, her garden, and sam cook. she liked to laugh and her banana pudding was legendary. we'll remember as she was this p

conversation we have professor at princeton university and author of the book "begin again" eddie glaude kay is with us. donny dutch is with us on this friday. when a shot comes up and i see the guns and the sleeves, i think desperate. also jim messina is with us who served as white house deputy chief of staff to president obama and ran his re-election campaign now ceo of the messina group, all along with willie and me. and joe has the morning off. i never give donny a chance to respond. you can take us to the top story, willie. >> get the insult in and move along before he can respond. >>> we'll start with nearly 73,000 new coronavirus infections reported yesterday. that breaks the record of 71,000 reported ten days ago. seven of the last ten days have been among the worst in terms of new cases since the start of the pandemic. and another new poll shows americans' view of how president trump is handling the coronavirus crisis has dropped sharply. the latest "the washington post"/abc poll finds 38% of americans approve of the president's handling of the outbreak, down eight points since

. >> eddy glaude, jump in. >> caitlyn, thank you for your reporting on this issue.he grass roots organizations doing to respond to this crisis given the failure of the government and state? >> i think grass roots groups are trying to give advise about how to move through the community safely, which is to do so as little as possible and when you do it, do it wearing a mask, a face shield. i did see that start to shift. i would go to target to get my bleach to clean off my material that i was bringing in and out of the hospital every day and i would see people in target wearing masks and face shields but the problem is the grass roots organizations are having to go against what the state and local government until yesterday was advising people.narrative. it's hard for people, the government is telling you one thing, the advocacy group is telling you another, i haven't worked in months, i need to feed my family, who do i believe? >> dr. gupta, let me just ask you, i was reading an article. >> yesterday about flying on airplanes and where we are there are some airlines,

. >> you know, rev, eddie glaude on the night of tulsa and john heilemann, i think, has either startedt or picked it up, i don't care what he has behind a curtain and replacing a conservative with a conservative really doesn't change this country at all. he is fat elvis, and he's running as this sort of guy replaying his old hits with no new ideas, and the difference, i think, what is so diminished from four years ago is that he was handed -- he was handed the crisis of coronavirus. he didn't create it, but he could have protected the country from it once it was here. and he failed. and in the wake of this national movement toward greater equality and bringing wide coalition together for change, he's not just awol. he's championing the restoration of the confederacy. i don't know that he can pull down a curtain and save himself this time. >> we should look at what curtain that we're looking behind. it is not a curtain where it's surprise. it's a curtin of the wizard of oz and we see the wizard has no clothes. and the problem he has is with the pandemic which he could have handled bette

professor at princeton university eddie glaude jr.t majority" in his new book" begin again: james baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own." eddie, you write in part this. it is not our task to save white people. that old idea has provided comfort for far too many across generations who continued to hate and harm. it works like a ready-made absolution. white people will be forgiven for their sins because that's what black people do. we forgive them. and they sin again. baldwin was right to give up on this folly. we have to give up this folly, too. much is made today of the necessity to reach out to the disaffected trump voter. this is the latest description of the silent majority. the reagan democrat or the forgotten american. for the most part, we are told these are the high school-educated white people working class white people who feel left out of an increasingly diverse america. but to direct our attention to these voters, to give our energy over to convincing them to believe otherwise, often takes us away from the di

. >> we're joined now by professor of princeton university, our friend, eddie glaude jr., his title ishis weekend titled "begin again: james baldwin's lessons" and also for this conversation, senior news correspondent and nbc correspondent and kim kimberly adkins and david blythe author of "frederick douglass: profit of freedom." eddie, i want to start with you. i want to go back to mississippi, that's your home state. the signing by governor reeves, a long time in the making, 126 years, to be exact. what is the significance for people that live outside the south and live outside the state of mississippi of that flag finally coming down? >> oh, my goodness. you know, mississippi has been described as a closed society as a metaphor for america. could you imagine those who grew up in mississippi who witnessed and experienced that brutality, seeing the symbol of the confederacy removed from the flag? think about marley evers, the wife of medgar evers, her seeing that symbol taken down. think of those who worked so hard to transform the society, willie, and what it meant for them. and thin