In response have come efforts to curtail voting rights, the Jan. Supreme Court stand as testaments to Black progress. The grass-roots movement around racial justice the historic election of Kamala Harris, the first African American and first woman vice-president the Democrats’ victories in Georgia, which secured a majority in the Senate and the likely confirmation of the first Black woman justice on the U.S. Glaude is author of “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 book, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own.” He said that while there have been historic racial achievements over the past two years, the counterreaction has been fierce.

At every moment in which a new America is on the verge of being reborn, the umbilical cord of white supremacy has been wrapped around the baby’s neck, choking the life out of it.” Every reckoning in the United States historically has carried with it betrayal.

McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, during a virtual JFK Jr. “We’re in the midst of what some will call a backlash, but I think that’s too generous,” said Glaude, the James S. says the nation is currently in the angry throes of a white reprisal to the racial reckoning sparked by the police murder of George Floyd, a response that comes at a critical time in efforts to build a genuine multiracial democracy.

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