Though I’m a white man present in the room, I feature black women exclusively on the syllabus. I’m sometimes criticized for doing so because I’m a white man talking about work that is outside my own personal experience. We all live together in a world that has made black feminism such an indispensable intervention; we all have parts to play in the solution, while always respectfully centering the voices of black women themselves of course. And what I liked, revered above all other things actually, was Janet Jackson’s music. After a long absence from music, Janet Jackson released a new album in 2015 called Unbreakable.

Source: Huffington Post August 03, 2016 20:55 UTC