Nearly a decade before she died in 2021, at 69, the activist and poet bell hooks gave an extensive radio interview with the novelist Silas House. They discussed the themes of hooks’s expansive body of ...

Press Play with Madeleine Brand bell hooks: Mainstream feminism excluded a lot of people The late feminist bell hooks pushed feminism beyond white, middle-class concerns to include poor women of color ...

I first met bell hooks in the late 1980s at a feminist conference where I, and a slew of other graduate students, slept on the floor of her hotel suite because the meeting was overbooked. For the next ...

This striking, luminously illustrated compendium from artist Nabil collects Palestinian folklore from Jerusalem’s Old City. The tales, many of them first-person encounters with Continue reading » ...

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 ...

Editors note: Throughout her career, bell hooks chose to not have her name capitalized and has been known by her pen name ever since. This story will keep that pattern. In memory of bell hooks’ life ...

Explore the life and legacy of Kentucky-born author bell hooks. Explore the life and legacy of Kentucky-born author bell hooks, who wrote nearly 40 books and whose work at the intersection of race, ...