The writer and theorist, who died this week, was instrumental in cracking open the white, western canon for Black artists. Author and cultural critic bell hooks poses for a portrait on December 16, ...

bell hooks, a Hopkinsville, Kentucky native turned celebrated thinker and cultural critic, died at 69 on Wednesday, December 15, at her home in Berea. All of us — critics and writers and scholars — ...

bell hooks is one of Americas most accessible public intellectuals In this twopart video extensively illustrated with many of the images under analysis she makes a ...

She viewed her radical work as one of the purest expressions of love for Black people there is. Photo: Karjean Levine/Getty Images The hills of Kentucky are enveloped in a legacy of resistance — first ...

bell hooks taught the world two things: how to critique and how to love. Perhaps the two lessons were both sides of the same coin. To read bell hooks is to become initiated into the power and ...

The nonprofit that dictates curriculum for Advanced Placement courses has unveiled a pared-down version of a course about African American history that cuts out works from famed Kentucky author and ...

Cultural theorist hooks means to challenge preconceptions, and it is a rare reader who will be able to walk away from her without considerable thought. Despite the frequent appearance of the dry word ...

A purported quote about love from the acclaimed author, theorist and professor bell hooks has been going viral since 2023. Most recently, it spread on X in June 2024, claiming she once said, "Knowing ...

A social media campaign has helped propel a book by the late Kentucky feminist author bell hooks onto the New York Times ...

Author bell hooks has died at the age of 69, her family and publisher said in a statement Wednesday. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, hooks was best known for her writing on Black identity, feminism and ...

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