‘We’re witnessing the end of the America that made our lives possible’: author Eddie Glaude on US’s 250th birthday

Glaude’s new book shows political turmoil historically reaching its boiling point around Fourth of July celebrations “The mere presence of Black people at the Fourth of July celebrations, acting as if freedom belonged to them, exposed the lie at the heart of this ritual of remembrance by the nation: ours was not a nation committed to liberty and equality.” So goes the second chapter of the author Eddie S Glaude Jr’s latest book America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries. The...

By Adria R Walker