His sister, four years older than he is, was born severely disabled, and has been taken care of at home by her mother since birth.

[8][9][10] Glaude graduated from high school at 16 and in 1989 received his bachelor's degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta.

[14] Glaude has made television appearances on The Tavis Smiley Show, Hannity & Colmes, CNN, C-SPAN, and Meet the Press.

In a December 2016 interview with the Mississippi Press he said, "Of the candidates that were present in the primaries, all of the folks who ran for the presidency, I thought Bernie Sanders was perhaps the person most closely aligned with my positions and what I thought the country needs at this present moment.

[citation needed] Glaude is married to Winnifred Brown-Glaude, professor of sociology and chair of African American Studies at The College of New Jersey.

They have one child, a son named Langston Ellis Glaude, who graduated Brown University.