**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.** 

Bestselling author and political commentator Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Chair of the African American Studies Department at Princeton University, will deconstruct the idea of whiteness and the way in which it determines the distribution of advantage and disadvantage in America. Glaude calls on his audiences to engage in an ongoing critique of racism’s manifestations, challenging people to think more carefully and systematically about racial issues.

About The Speaker: Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. is the James S. McDonnell distinguished university professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton. He frequently appears in the media, as a columnist for TIME Magazine and as an MSNBC contributor on programs like Morning Joe and Deadline Whitehouse with Nicolle Wallace. He regularly appears on Meet the Press on Sundays. Glaude also hosts Princeton’s AAS podcast, a conversation around the field of African American Studies and the Black experience in the 21st century. His writings include Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul; In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, and his most recent, the New York Times bestseller, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own, which takes a wide look at Black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States and the challenges we face as a democracy.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Tewksbury Library and the White Fund. Hosted by Northern Essex Community College in collaboration with the Tewksbury Public Library, Memorial Hall Library in Andover, and the Lawrence Public Library.