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Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. said Thursday on MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports” that the Supreme Court considering arguments in Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case was “really American democracy in the balance.” Glaude said, “We’re talking about the scope of presidential power, we’re talking about the nature of separation of powers, we’re at the heart of American democracy right now.”

Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President Joe Biden needed to better “message” the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Co-host Jonathan Lemaire asked, “Title 42 put in place by the Trump administration, the Biden White House wants it to end but not quiet they pushed for the stay and will get an answer potentially as soon as today for its future. It will be very difficult at the border White House aides say what, when you look at the images from El Paso, what does it make you think?” Glaude said, “There’s the moral...

Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr., on Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” said people who are anti-Critical Race Theory and believed the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump were part of an extremist “racist retrenchment.” Glaude said, “With the holiday, we now have an occasion to think about the second founding. That is to say, the emergence of the U.S. nation-state shorn of slavery, not racism, but it’s the second founding where the U.S. nation-state is born without the institution of slavery. Although the 13th Amendment is passed about 6 months later, ratified 6 months after Juneteenth, Juneteenth still...

Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr., on Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” called for Democrats to have struggles in the street to combat the agenda of white Evangelicals implemented by former President Donald Trump. When asked what voters the Democrats can get energized, Glaude said, “We see it among workers who have seen their quality of life deteriorate. We know that there are opportunities among young people who are coming of age in a world that’s broken. We know there are opportunities among black and Latino voters for the Democratic Party to begin to put forward a vision.”

… “I’m thinking about all those folks who, just for a moment, the nation shared their grief,” Glaude told MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace. “Oh, what a first step. What a beautiful step.” “I’m reminded of the Psalmist, you know, ‘He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds,’” Glaude added. […] “You know, we’re at a crossroads as a nation,” Glaude said. “It’s easy for us to place all of the blame on Donald Trump. He makes it easy for us, you know? He does. But there were 75, 74-plus million people who voted for him. Selfishness, greed, you know,...

Princeton University professor and MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude, Jr. said Thursday on “Deadline” that there was a “moral rot” in America and added that President Donald Trump was its “avatar.”

‘I think part of what we see is the Clinton campaign made a bad decision’ ...Princeton professor African-American studies, Eddie Glaude, is blasting President Obama for the "condescending" speech he delivered Saturday, during which he urged black voters to vote for Hillary Clinton. Failure to do so, Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus, would "insult" him. Glaude appeared Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Here's an excerpt: GLAUDE: “They’re getting a little wobbly but they’re still still sturdy. (Laughter) And part of — you know, I am really — I was really annoyed actually by the president’s speech.” SCARBOROUGH: “Were you...

Ten years ago, a group of black Muslims tried to overthrow the democratically-elected government of the Caribbean twin-island state of Trinidad and Tobago. One-hundred-and-fourteen members of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen group, mostly young black men, took over the island's parliament; held the prime minister and some other members of his cabinet hostage; and stormed the state-run television station. For many, inside and outside the Caribbean, the 27 July crisis came as a total shock. The English-speaking Caribbean islands had vowed, following the 1983 American-led invasion of Grenada, never to see democratically-elected structures topple ever again. Armed raid The crisis began with the...