Hull is the president and CEO of Girls Inc., a national organization that serves - through programing and advocacy - more than 132,000 girls through a network of 80 local organizations across the U.S. 15 at age 69 after an extended illness, the Kentucky university announced.

Ī feminist scholar and social activist, hooks was most recently a distinguished professor in residence in Appalacian studies at Berea College.

“To me the classroom continues to be a place where paradise can be realized, a place of passion and possibility, a place where spirit matters, where all that we learn and know leads us into greater connection, into greater understanding of life lived in community,” she wrote in her 2003 book, Teaching Community, a Pedagogy of Hope. Each one helped cement her reputation as a great thinker, a woman whose observations about education, race and love would earn iconic status among the many students she taught through the years and the hordes of other college and graduate students assigned her work. Throughout the course of her career, she wrote dozens of books under the name she adopted to honor her maternal great-grandmother. Sign up for The 74 Newsletterįrom reimagining the classroom to tearing down imposter syndrome, author, critic and fierce public intellectual bell hooks inspired women of color across generations to create a world in which all are free to reach their potential.īorn Gloria Jean Watkins in rural, segregated Kentucky, hooks graduated from Stanford University in 1974 with a degree in English literature. Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox.

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