Can America ever become such a beloved community as Martin Luther King Jr. imagined it, a society free of prejudice where racial differences would be erased and forgotten?
Cornel West, Professor of Religion and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University and bell hooks, Professor of English, City University of New York reflect on the Beloved Community.
Author, philosopher and activist Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University. He has written 20 books but is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, looks at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.
bell hooks is an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. Her writing has been focussed on the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she describes as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. She has published more than 30 books that address race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism. In 2014, she founded the bell hooks Institute at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.
Recorded in 1996 at Cambridge Forum