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Come honor Black thought and the power of our stories in community with one of today’s most impactful voices.

Join us on Juneteenth for a special meet & greet celebration with professor and bestselling author, @esglaude as he signs his new book, America, USA

“Eddie S. Glaude is a powerful voice of conscience in our tumultuous world. He pulls no punches, calling on us to interrogate our conceptions of innocence and freedom and the stories we tell ourselves about our past and present.

Centered around the major celebrations of America’s milestone birthdays across 250 years of history, the book offers a riveting look at the battles over who has a stake in writing the American story. Devastatingly candid, profoundly moving, and deeply reflective, America, U.S.A. is a shining meditation on how we must reckon with a grim past in order to strive for the better angels of our future.”

See you there!

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🎟️ in bioooo (includes signed book)

#MahoganyBooks #eddieglaude

WIN A FREE COPY of this incredible work from the phenomenal @esglaude Thank you to @crownpublishing for the free copy to host this giveaway ✨️ I can't recommend this enough!

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WIN A FREE COPY of this incredible work from the phenomenal @esglaude Thank you to @crownpublishing for the free copy to host this giveaway ✨️ I can't recommend this enough!

HOW TO ENTER
● FOLLOW ME AND THE AUTHOR
● LIKE THIS POST
● TELL US IN THE COMMENTS ABOUT A BOOK THAT YOU WISH EVERYONE WOULD READ

☆ EXTRA ENTRY FOR EACH REPOST AND SHARE IN STORIES

☆ EXTRA ENTRY IF THE BOOK YOU RECOMMEND
IS FROM CROWN
PUBLISHING

[Must be comfortable DMing me a mailing address. US BASED MAILING ONLY 🙏]

The winner will be announced on Tuesday May 26 ☆PUB DAY☆

#giveaway #bookpost #bookstagram #books #free

https://www.anativeson.org/p/weekly-wrap-up-may-22-2026

🇺🇸This is America and @esglaude is releasing what I believe is a critical historical account of our nations’s historyover the last 250 years.
📚America U.S.A How Race Shadows The Nation’s Anniversaries releases on 5/26 and this one belongs on your book shelf.

🙌🏾 p.s. I just finished the final edits on an interview with the author and I can’t wait for you to see it next week!

🇺🇸This is America and @esglaude is releasing what I believe is a critical historical account of our nations’s historyover the last 250 years.
📚America U.S.A How Race Shadows The Nation’s Anniversaries releases on 5/26 and this one belongs on your book shelf.

🙌🏾 p.s. I just finished the final edits on an interview with the author and I can’t wait for you to see it next week!

🇺🇸This is America and @esglaude is releasing what I believe is a critical historical account of our nations’s historyover the last 250 years.
📚America U.S.A How Race Shadows The Nation’s Anniversaries releases on 5/26 and this one belongs on your book shelf.

🙌🏾 p.s. I just finished the final edits on an interview with the author and I can’t wait for you to see it next week!

🇺🇸This is America and @esglaude is releasing what I believe is a critical historical account of our nations’s historyover the last 250 years.
📚America U.S.A How Race Shadows The Nation’s Anniversaries releases on 5/26 and this one belongs on your book shelf.

🙌🏾 p.s. I just finished the final edits on an interview with the author and I can’t wait for you to see it next week!

If freedom is given… it can be taken. Challenge the premise…no one group owns freedom. #AmericaUSA

Pre-Order your signed copy from @labyrinth.books today! https://linktr.ee/eddieglaudejr

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JACKSON, MS! We’re in the building today for a LIVE Town Hall ahead of the Mississippi Fights Back Rally co-hosted by our guy @esglaude .

We’re joining organizations like @naacpms , @msvotes , @onevoicems , @blackvotersmtr , and many more for a powerful day of conversation, strategy, and action.

Join us THIS MORNING at the Jackson Convention Complex at 10:30 AM CT before the rally kicks off at noon. We’ve also got a special announcement you do not want to miss.

Register to attend in person:
VRArally.ms

JACKSON, MS! We’re in the building today for a LIVE Town Hall ahead of the Mississippi Fights Back Rally co-hosted by our guy @esglaude .

We’re joining organizations like @naacpms , @msvotes , @onevoicems , @blackvotersmtr , and many more for a powerful day of conversation, strategy, and action.

Join us THIS MORNING at the Jackson Convention Complex at 10:30 AM CT before the rally kicks off at noon. We’ve also got a special announcement you do not want to miss.

Register to attend in person:
VRArally.ms

Get your signed copies @labyrinth.books
https://www.labyrinthbooks.com/america-u-s-a/

Tennessee Republicans are dividing the state’s lone Black-majority Congressional district, raising concerns about whether Black-majority cities like Memphis will still have a representative who fights for the issues that matter to their communities. As Antonia Hylton explains, “It’s not representation for representation’s sake... it’s about who their representative believes they go to work for.”

https://www.anativeson.org/p/weekly-wrap-up-may-15-2026

https://www.anativeson.org/p/weekly-wrap-up-may-15-2026

Looking forward to contemplating this complex history with @esglaude at @aspenideas next month, with musical insights from @blackmaninoff -

#america250

They know exactly what they’re doing.

When a party can’t win fairly, it redraws the rules. When voters of color gain power, they carve up the maps. When communities organize, they try to silence them before they ever reach the ballot box.

Louisiana Republicans are now moving to eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black congressional districts after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais weakened key Voting Rights Act protections and opened the door for states to redraw maps in ways that reduce Black voting power. This isn’t democracy. This is a power grab.

And it’s not happening in a vacuum. The same political movement that cheers mass deportations — including reports from the ACLU of Louisiana that U.S. citizen children were deported, one while undergoing cancer treatment — is the same movement trying to decide which voters count and which voters can be erased.

Call it what it is: racism dressed up as “redistricting.” Cheating dressed up as “strategy.” Minority rule dressed up as “law and order.”

But here’s the part they keep forgetting: voting is STILL power.

They can gerrymander.
They can suppress.
They can lie.
They can try to make people feel hopeless.

But they cannot win if enough of us refuse to sit out.

Vote them out.
Every enabler.
Every coward.
Every politician who thinks democracy only counts when they control the outcome.

Register. Check your registration. Bring someone with you. Show up like your rights depend on it — because they do.

#racism #gerrymandering #Louisiana #vote #VoteThemOut