Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast, brought to you by the Nation magazine.

I'm Dave Ziren.

We have a show this week that I am just so excited about.

I can't even begin to tell you. We are talking to

in my mind, just a giant and an incredible interview. His name is Dr. Eddie Glawd. He's a professor

at Princeton. He's the author of books like Democracy and Black, How Race Still Enslaves the American

Soul.

He's also the author of one of my favorite books.

It's called Begin Again, James Baldwin's America, and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.

Now he is with us today to talk about his new book, America, USA, How Race Shadows the

Nations Anniversaries.

And I gotta tell you, it's a great interview.

I already recorded it so I can say that with confidence.

This is a great interview.

Also, that's not our only interview of the day.

The Knicks are in the finals.

For the first time since 1999,

they're trying to win their first championship since 1973, and they're going

up against Victor Wembeñama and the San Antonio Spurs. And I've been this excited about a finals ever.

And we're going to break it all down with our resident Hoops savant, Aria Shirazi. You're not going to

want to miss it, especially his differentiation between how he is feeling

and how the people around him are feeling in New York City right now

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