bell hooks

Gloria Watkins, better known as bell hooks, was born September 25, 1952, to a mother who was a homemaker and a father who worked as a custodian. hooks was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Institute was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.

Born:

Sep 25, 1952 In Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA

Movie/TV Credits:

8

First Appeared:

In the movie Black Is… Black Ain’t 1995-10-11

Latest Project:

Movie Hillbilly 2018-05-19