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Well. >> congressman, as always, good to see you. thanks for taking time to join us this morning. congressman hakim jeffreys is a democrat of new york. it's starting to feel a lot like 2020 all over again. covid-19 cases spiking around the united states. one offer infectious disease experts will answer your questions, next. and she wrote about it all. the power of community, the necessary end to white supremacy. the significance of intersectional feminism and love. we'll discuss the extraordinary life and work of bell hooks. also, i'll speak with democratic congresswoman ilhan omar. ther...

Quote from bell hooks, i'll read that one now. as long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. this was another big theme for bell hooks, that all feminism is not equal, and all feminism is not all encompassing and all inclusive. >> yeah, that's exactly right, ali. thank you for taking a few minutes to reflect on the tremendous legacy of bell hooks, the seismic loss that so many of us as black women are experiencing this week. yeah, i mean, bell hooks is the one that made it clear for me that anybody can be part of the patri...

Neglect negate love, care and affirmation the opposite of abuse and humiliation are the foundation of love. it is a testimony to the failure of loving practice that abuse is happening in first place. that's really central to bell hook's thinking about this whole thing. she -- for all the things she criticized, she wasn't filled with hate about it. >> no. i think that's one of the things that makes her such a compelling activist and intellectual scholar and teacher is that she was completely fierce in her criticism of domination, all forms of domination. as you quoted earlier, she spoke about w...

Think all of us that are -- that continue to be shaped by her work as you said, we will be life long students of bell hook's, and so we are duty bound to really carry on with this blueprint she laid down for us in terms of how we all get free and so much of that to professor roberts' point is really about love and community that is really the path to the way forward. >> and professor roberts, errin makes a good point, she invites men to be part of this and for men who struggled particularly in the last several years with me too, feeling like they're being blamed or they're not at fault, i thin...

Bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics intertwined helped shape academic and popular debates over the past 40 years, has died. She was 69.