As the U.S. turns 250, this historian has blunt advice: ‘America has to grow up’

Eddie Glaude Jr. speaks in Philadelphia on March 1, 2023. Lisa Lake/Getty Images

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As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, historian and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. says he’s feeling rageful. He opens his new book, America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries, bluntly, with the declaration: “I do not love America, and never have, especially now.”

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