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Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is a prominent voice in American studies and African American history. He is known for his book "Begin Again," which explores the legacy of James Baldwin. Glaude Jr.'s writing often examines race, religion, and democracy in the United States.

Imani Perry is a writer and scholar who explores history, culture, and race in the United States. Her books include South to America, Sing a Black Girl's Song, and More Beautiful and More Terrible.

James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was impr...