Bell hooks

Bell Hooks

'The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals in the Age of Crack'

'The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals in the Age of Crack'

Bell hooks took part in a roundtable discussion on November 29, 1992 titled “The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals in the Age of Crack,” held at Harvard’s Kennedy School and moderated by Anthony Appiah. The discussion was prompted by Eugene Rivers’s open letter in the Boston Review (A response to Noam Chomsky), which addressed the crisis in inner-city African-American communities and called for intellectuals to engage actively with the urban poor. The panel included bell hooks, Cornel West, Glenn C. Loury, Eugene F. Rivers, III, Margaret A. Burnham, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. The panelists concluded that black intellectuals have a critical role in addressing the crisis in inner-city black communities through direct engagement, critical thinking, and resource sharing, but they must navigate tensions between their class privilege, intellectual work, and community needs.,,

All Were Rebels: The Founding of the Network of East-West Women

The Meeting in Dubrovnik, June 7–9, 1991 was a gathering of Eastern and Central European feminists organized by American feminists. It aimed to discuss the impact of political changes in the region on women's rights. Ann Snitow's article published posthumously in Dissent Magazine in Winter 2020: Some of the individuals mentioned in the article:

• Slavenka Drakulic (Yugoslavian writer)
• Sonia Jaffe Robbins (American organizer)
• Vaclav Havel (former Czech dissident and politician)
• Loretta Ross (African American feminist)
• Ellen Willis (American feminist)
• Agnes Hochberg (cofounder of the Hungarian Feminist Network)
• Serbian activist Sonja Licht (mentioned)
• Bell Hooks (mentioned)

Malcolm X conference

A conference, Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle was held in New York City, November 14 1990.

The panel "New Research on Malcolm X" consisted of;

Chairperson:

• Ron Bailey, Northeastern University

Panel:

• William Sales, Seton Hall University, author of Southern Africa: Same Struggle, Same Fight

• Bell Hooks, Oberlin College, author of Yearning: Critiques of Race, Gender, and Class

• James Cone, Union theological Seminary, author of Martin and Malcolm: American Dream or Nightmare?