Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

In this timely biography, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. *97 likens our current racial and political climate in the “after times” to that of James Baldwin in the aftermath of the civil rights movement when calls for change were met with assassinations. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Penguin Random House) uses Baldwin’s experience as lens through which to view race in America today, suggesting that, like Baldwin, we too can hold onto hope during our own after times.