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 ...

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 ...

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bell hooks died on Wednesday at the age of 69 "The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself," bell hooks wrote in Communion: The Search for Female Love. "Learning to ...

Get a free book about and meet the author when you buy a po-boy Friday at Melba's. "bell hooks' spiritual vision: Buddhist, Christian and Feminist," by Nadra Nittle, will be offered at the po-boy shop ...

I was introduced to the work of bell hooks for the first time when I was 14 years old, sitting on my Nana’s porch, complaining about the mosquitoes and the heat. My Nana, who was probably frustrated ...

bell hooks, the Black feminist author and intellectual whose books transformed ways of thinking about education and racism, died Dec. 15. She was 69. hooks’ more than 30 volumes covered a wide range ...

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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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, ...

For all the things that bell hooks was—one of the foremost Black intellectuals in the world, renowned feminist, author of more than 40 books, revolutionary cultural critic—and all the places she lived ...

NEW YORK (AP) — bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics intertwined helped shape academic and popular debates over ...