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Professor Glouard, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show.

It's my pleasure, it's my pleasure.

First of all, can I just say how impressed I am that you're at home,

but you're rocking that suit like you are in a studio somewhere?

It's really impressive.

You know, if you ask me to stand up, it'll be a different question,

but I appreciate that. I appreciate that.

People always ask me about the books that are behind me here,

and yours has been here almost from the very beginning, I think.

You write about race and you write about America's stories

and the stories that tells itself about race.

James Bourne, Baldwin, is notorious for being a writer

who wrote and spoke his mind, and in many ways taps into the consciousness

of what it means to be black in America.

Your new book delves into his life, but it's part biography,

part analyzing his writing and how it applies to what we're going through today.

In all the time, since those books have been written, has anything changed?

Well, you know, Baldwin has this wonderful line,

America's always changing, but America never changes.

There's this sense that the country is dynamic,

but there's this ongoing through line.

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