beloved community
July 1997
Beloved Community: African American Women
Civil rights activist and Baptist minister Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, reflects on how Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman helped shape our ideas of humanity and advanced the struggle to recognize the dignity of all.
May 1996
Beloved Community: Cornel West & bell hooks
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?
September 1997
Beloved Law Community: Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier discusses her vision of a beloved community in a law school setting. How should the terms of legal education be re-defined?
February 1998
Beloved Community: Cosmopolitanism
Afro-American scholar and philosopher K. Anthony Appiah considers the idea of a community founded on the principles of inclusion, hope, and mutual respect, a community that transcends the polarizing rhetoric of racism.
February 2005
Beloved Community: African American Lives
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, discusses African American Lives at Cambridge Forum in 2005.