bell hooks on “The Responsibility” of Black Intellectuals

Black self-determination is not the same as Black capitalism

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Gloria Jean Watkins, best known by her pen name bell hooks, died last month at the age of sixty-nine. She was a professor, social activist, and feminist. Her 1981 critically acclaimed book Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism established her as a public…