On Dec. 15, the family of bell hooks announced that the feminist critic, writer, and professor died in her home at age 69 after an “extended illness.” She is remembered as a teacher and as one of the ...

Beloved author, professor and feminist bell hooks, known for titles like "Ain't I a Woman" and "All About Love," died Wednesday at 69, her family confirmed to USA TODAY. Born Gloria Jean Watkins in ...

As soon as news spread of the passing of acclaimed feminist theorist and activist bell hooks this week, tributes to her transformative legacy started pouring in. Especially among feminist thinkers, ...

If we've learned one thing from feminist scholar bell hooks's recent panel at The New School, entitled "Whose Booty Is This?", it's that she's disenchanted with the current big booty phenomenon and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images) News of the death of Gloria Jean Watkins, best known as bell hooks, has sparked an outpouring of grief around the ...

Posters with bell hooks quotes are on display in MCLA's Design Lab at 49 Main St. in North Adams. They mark a year anniversary of the writer and scholar's death, and the project aims to honor her and ...

Hannah Drake is a writer and activist. A day before bell hooks died this week, I was leaving the grocery store when a man stopped me so he could read my shirt. I stood with bags in hand as he read out ...

“Who is bell hooks and why are we reading an author who can’t even be bothered to capitalize her own name?” I snarked when I was an undergraduate at the University of Iowa in the late 1990s. “It’s ...