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Best Of: A family split by race / Eddie Glaude Jr. on America at 250

πŸŽ™οΈ Fresh Air πŸ• June 24, 2026 at 9:50 AM
πŸ“ Source based in: World β€Ί Northern Hemisphere β€Ί North America β€Ί United States

Keeps playing with the screen off. The episode is played from Fresh Air’s own podcast host.

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole family roots inspired New Orleanian journalist Susan Saulny to research her Creole great-uncle who moved to Chicago, identified himself as white and never returned. She describes her journey to reunite her family. Her piece in the New York Times is called “A Family Secret No More.”

As the United States turns 250, scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. has blunt advice: β€œAmerica has to grow up.” In β€˜America, U.S.A.,’ the Princeton African American Studies professor looks at the country through the lens of its previous anniversaries and centennials. “The divided soul of the nation is in full view,” he says.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan shares three book recommendations: β€˜The Family Man,’ by James Lasdun, β€˜The Hill,’ by Harriet Clark and β€˜A Beautiful Loan,’ by Mary Costello.

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