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"Love is a combination of six ingredients: care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust". Bell Hooks

#AfricanAmerican #BellHooks #Love #Respect  #WhereWeStand  #ClassMatters  "Love is a combination of six ingredients: care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust". Bell Hooks A writer, teacher and cultural critic, bell hooks is best known for her work examining systems of domination, especially racism and patriarchy, and how they may be overcome. She has published more than twenty books, including  Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; Killing Rage: Ending Racism , and  Where We Stand: Class Matters . hooks says that uncovering and naming the forms of oppression in our society is an extension of her lifelong curiosity about love and her desire to see love manifested. “Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that it means we will not be challenged or changed,” she once wrote in the Buddhist magazine   Shambhala Sun . “When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think

From emperors to inventors: the unsung heroes to celebrate in Black History Month

#BlackHistory #AfricanAmerican #Heroes #Inventors #GeorgeWashingtonCarver,#ClaudiaJones #BlackHistorymonth In 1926, the US historian Carter G Woodson, the son of former slaves, launched Negro History Week to commemorate important people and events from the African diaspora. “If a race has no history,” he said, “it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” Renamed and expanded in the 1970s, what we now know as  Black History Month  has been celebrated in the UK since 1987. Q&A What is Black History Month? Show This year, as every year, the focus will be on pivotal and well-documented figures such as Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. But there are others whose often radical work is frequently forgotten. In an effort to honour at least some of them, we asked black historians and cultural figures to nominate their own heroes and watershed events. Robert Wedderburn  by Kwame Kwei-

Netflix Released Their Black History Month Content For ‘Black Leads’: What’s On It?

#BlackHistorymonth #Netflix #Movies #AfricanAmerican Black History Month is here and there’s a huge amount of content in film, songs, and literary works to commemorate the efforts and achievements of African Americans. In inclusion to Google dropping its campaign business in occasion with this thirty days, the Emmy-winning membership solution features introduced its formal black colored prospects set of movies in honor of this next 28 times. Here are seven films that members would be the many stoked up about. Ali The 2001 biographical recreations crisis stars Will Smith as boxing legend, Muhammed Ali. The movie shows 10 years of Ali’s life – from 1964 to 1974. Some of this significant places Ali focuses on are their capture of this heavyweight title from fellow boxer Sonny Liston, their religious transformation to Islam, their community critique for the Vietnam War that triggered significant backlash, their banishment from boxing, their return boxing-in 1971, and f