Trailblazing Feminist Author bell hooks Dies At Age 69

bell hooks, a trailblazing Black feminist whose writings helped to shape the discourse around gender, race, relationships and class, has died at age 69, at her home in Berea, Kentucky. hooks’s influence runs far and deep, with her thinking, writing, and teachings on feminism credited with broadening the movement to be more intersectional. Born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952 and raised in a segregated town in rural Kentucky, Dr. hooks — who famously stylized her name with lower-case letters in part to focus attention on her ideas, rather than her identity — wrote more than 30 books, in which she… Read Full Article