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Summary

A roundtable discussion 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.^[1],^[2]

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