Eddie Glaude

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (born September 4, 1968) is an American academic, author, and current-affairs pundit.

He is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

He has previously been the chair of Princeton's Center for African American Studies and the chair of its Department of African American Studies.

He has authored five books, and edited or co-edited two others.

He has published articles on U.S. media platforms such as Time and the Huffington Post.

He is a contributor to the MSNBC cable news channel, and frequently appears as a commentator on the Morning Joe and Deadline: White House programs.

Glaude was born in 1968 in Moss Point, Mississippi.

He graduated from high school at the age of 16 and in 1989 received his bachelor's degree from Morehouse College.

After graduating from Morehouse, Glaude earned a master's degree in African-American studies from Temple University and afterwards a Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University.

In 2015, Glaude received an honorary doctor of human letters from Colgate University.

Glaude began his teaching career at Bowdoin College, where he served as chair of the Department of Religion.

He later joined the faculty of Princeton University.

He is the James Smith McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton.

He has previously been the chair of the university's Center for African American Studies and the chair of its Department of African American Studies.

Glaude has made television appearances on The Tavis Smiley Show, Hannity & Colmes, CNN, C-SPAN, and Meet the Press.

He has also appeared in the documentary Stand, produced and directed by Tavis Smiley, and the documentaries Crouch and Join or Die.

He has been a contributor to Time and the Huffington Post.

He is a contributor to the MSNBC cable news channel, and makes frequent appearances on the Morning Joe and Deadline: White House programs.

Glaude supported Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders' candidacy for the 2016 U.S. Democratic Party nomination for U.S. president.

In a December 2016 interview with the Mississippi Press, Glaude said "Of the candidates that were present in the primaries, all of the folks who ran for the presidency, I thought Bernie Sanders was perhaps the person most closely aligned with my positions and what I thought the country needs at this present moment."

In a July 12, 2016 article for Time magazine, titled "My Democratic Problem with Voting for Hillary Clinton," Glaude stated that he would not be voting for 2016 U.S. Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

He wrote that he considered her a "a corporate Democrat intent on maintaining the status quo."

Glaude's byline has since been removed from the article for unexplained reasons.