Commentary
Examining Our Intellectual Crisis the 50th Year
Columnist
When we use the term intellectual, we are talking about people who struggle around ideas— writers, poets, scholars, researchers, teachers, students, and activists. Intellectuals are people who grapple with ideas and who function in the cultural, political, educational, and economic domains of the society.
One of our great ancestors, Harold Cruse wrote a book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual ,which was published in 1967, at the height of the…
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