Archive for May, 2008
It Began With Education: A Look at the Influences of bell hooks
Often referenced as a race activist, feminist scholar, cultural critic, educational theorist and revolutionary, Gloria Jean Watkins was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in September 1952. Later Watkins adopted the pseudonym bell hooks, in tribute to her great grandmother, but chose to lower case the initial caps of her assumed name in order to emphasize her [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Fading of a Pioneer for Interracial Love
Earlier this month, Mildred Loving passed away of pneumonia at the age of 68. Ms. Loving wasn’t an ordinary African American inhabitant of Virginia. She became a pioneer for interracial romance in 1950’s when she and her Caucasian husband, Richard, where arrested for living as husband and wife in Caroline County. Like many states at [...]
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