Beyond the Dream MLK Keynote Speaker: Eddie Glaude, Jr.

Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023 at 7 p.m.

Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Lenhart Grand Ballroom

Sponsored by BGSU Office of Diversity and Belonging

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This is a free event but you must register to attend either in person (limited seating) or by video streaming.

Each in-person registration is limited to two (2) tickets. A valid email must be entered to receive the bar coded ticket(s) or streaming information.

Registration closes on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023.

About Eddie Glaude, Jr.:

One of the nation’s most prominent scholars, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr. is an author, political commentator, public intellectual and passionate educator who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. His writings, including 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, the New York Times bestseller, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own, takes a wide look at Black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States and the challenges we face as a democracy.

Dr. Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton. He frequently appears in the media, as a columnist for TIME Magazine and as an MSNBC contributor on programs like Morning Joe and Deadline Whitehouse with Nicolle Wallace. In his writing and speaking, Dr. Glaude is an American critic in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson, confronting history and bringing our nation’s complexities, vulnerabilities and hope into full view.

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