good afternoon again. max rodriguez, founder of the harlem book fair, this is the fourth of our discussion following a presentation by the author, and we have an online video book discussion program and we have the presentation of the annual book awards. we hope you will stay. i have the honor of presenting mister eddie glaude, the author of a new book titled democracy in black, how ray still enslave the american soul. eddie glaude is a professor at princeton university teaching and the religion department and production of african-american studies. he writes for time magazine and democracy now. this book intrigues me. it is very thought-provoking, provocative and the title itself says that. it is quite offputting how race still enslave the american soul. how many ideas we have in that title, the idea of race, enslavement, the american soul. i find it interesting because we were never able to answer that question, groundedness of truth, absoluteness of truth and being truth
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