In celebration of Valentine’s Day, this week’s Race + Power newsletter focuses on the power of love. The first feature, by Cyndi Suarez, looks at bell hooks’s central teaching—the Love Ethic—which expands notions of love from the individualistic to the social, with implications for our sector. The second feature is an excerpt from Black Loves Matters, a chapter that explores the way the Black romance genre offers Black people reprieve from the daily injustices of racism. The third article is an interview with a Puerto Rican climate justice leader who tells us the love of the people of Puerto Rico is what helps them deal with the island’s climate challenges. Finally, we offer a podcast interview with Mariama White-Hammond, a pastor and climate leader who agrees with the aforementioned Puerto Rican climate leader that we need love to get through the climate crisis.