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 ...

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 ...

Educator and researcher Wittkop resurfaces in this evocative debut history a long-forgotten meeting between two notable literary women of the 19th century. In the 1830s, Continue reading » The Cost of ...

One of our nation's leading public intellectuals, Black feminist author and social activist bell hooks has inspired many generations of academics and non-academics alike, due not only to her ...