Going Deep with Eddie Glaude, Jr. on Informed Reflection

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What book shook you to your core? That’s the question we’re asking some of our favorite American thinkers. This week we’re talking to Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., a Princeton professor, columnist for TIME and frequent TV commentator. Eddie was transformed by WEB Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk and its core ideas of Noble Consciousness and The Veil. He details how the book impacted him at various stages of his life in this surprisingly personal and moving interview. Special thanks to The Teagle Foundation for their generous support of this series. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm
0:05.8	wondering what are the books that cross our paths when we are young that never
0:10.7	really leave our consciousness.
0:13.0	My guest today is Professor Eddie Gla Jr.
0:16.0	He is one of the most prominent scholars in the nation.
0:19.0	He started out as a bright curious country boy from Mississippi and is now a distinguished professor of
0:25.2	African American Studies at Princeton.
0:28.1	He's also an author and a political pundant.
0:31.1	He has this incredible combination of a scholar's knowledge of history, a political
0:36.3	commentator's take on the latest events, and an activist's passion for social justice.
0:42.8	And so I was thrilled to sit down with him to talk about a book that shook him to his
0:47.7	core, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois.
0:53.0	Join me for Kelly Corrigan Wonders
0:54.9	and my conversation with Eddie Glod Jr. My conversation partner today is a Princeton professor of African American studies.
1:15.6	His name is Eddie Glod Jr. You may recognize that name from shows like Morning Joe or
1:21.6	meet the press. He's often called upon to comment on the
1:25.1	latest events in politics.
1:27.2	Eddie is also a highly accomplished respected religious scholar and the former president of the American Academy of Religion.
1:35.0	We sat down at the Aspen Ideas Festival and I asked him about a book that changed his life.
1:40.0	He talked about coming in contact with W.E.B. Du Bois, the souls of black folk while he was in college.
1:47.4	You may have found it there too if you haven't read it in a while or you never read it.
1:52.4	This is a collection of essays on Black Life and
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