We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

In this book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. argues that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics.

Through interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Glaude shows how ordinary people have the capacity to be the heroes that American democracy desperately requires.

The book, based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard University, critiques the reliance on elected leaders and unchanging political structures, emphasizing the need for individual and collective action to build a better society.