Prominent intellectual, professor, activist, and feminist bell hooks passed away this week from end-stage renal disease. She was a trailblazer in black feminist thought, publishing 40 books, receiving ...

In her nearly 70 years of life, bell hooks never gave birth but she did have many children. The author, professor, and speaker mothered multiple generations of thinkers, writers, and feminists who ...

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bell hooks is an irreplaceable voice in discussions on feminism, self-love, healing, and gender and race equality. Her writings have transformed the way many approach some of the most challenging or ...

For many of us navigating our twenties, bell hooks’ All About Love arrives not just as a book, but as a balm. It cools the ...

We are mourning the passing of bell hooks, pioneering intellectual, author, professor and feminist, and a beautiful soul. hooks has been a guiding presence in my life for the past 30+ years. I have ...

The writer and path-setting activist bell hooks died yesterday at her home in Kentucky. She was 69 years old. Bell hooks thought deeply about love, what it is and why we need it. NPR's Andrew Limbong ...

When I think of bell hooks, I think of a fierce, tenacious, unapologetic cultural critic and feminist theorist; a literary giant in the 20th and 21st century; a writer and scholar deeply invested in ...

bell hooks’s two sisters and brother accept the Alumni Achievment award on her behalf. From left to right: Angela Watkins Malone, Kenneth Marlow Watkins, Gwenda Watkins Motley, and UCSC Chancellor ...

In the summer of 2022, Emma Goodwin was getting over a breakup and thinking hard about her life and how to better herself. She decided to try a book she had heard about often, bell hooks’ “All About ...

OPINION: Four burgeoning Black women writers tell theGrio how the works of the Black feminist scholar inspire them to be their best selves. bell hooks’ work makes many demands of me as a writer, ...