M. Shadee Malaklou had just been hired as the new chair of the Women's and Gender Studies department at Berea College in Kentucky when she was invited to have lunch with bell hooks. When she arrived, ...

bell hooks died in Kentucky on Dec. 15, 2021, at 69. As an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), bell hooks was inarguably one of the nation's prominent feminist scholars and authors. Time's 100 Women of ...

I knew bell hooks for half my life, and she was like a second mother to me, and also my mentor, sister, friend. I was summoned to her home state of Kentucky in December 2021 to be one of the few to ...

M. Shadee Malaklou had just been hired as the new chair of the Women's and Gender Studies department at Berea College in Kentucky when she was invited to have lunch with bell hooks. When she arrived, ...

Since hooks' passing on December 15, social media has flooded with reflections on her public impact as an author and scholar. Here, her friends... M. Shadee Malaklou had just been hired as the new ...