![]() ![]() ![]() “bell hooks meant for us to build on what she built. “She broke that ground and made it less remarkable for me,” Hull said. But, she said, she didn’t feel the weight of racism in her daily life, in part because of women like hooks. Hull knew her own accomplishments were substantive, having risen to academic heights as a Black woman in the 1960s and ’70s. Her way of thinking and her approach was so transformative … and so challenging - but in a very productive way.” “I never read or heard anything from her that I didn’t admire,” Hull said of hooks. She was first introduced to hooks in graduate school at Harvard and later taught some of her work at Dartmouth. 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. ![]()
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