Changemaker 3: bell hooks

Today's changemaker is Gloria Jean Watkins, a prominent black feminist thinker, scholar and activist known as bell hooks. Born in 1952, she grew up in poverty in a segregated town in Kentucky and dedicated her life to eliminating racial segregation and discrimination. Her work on race, gender and class has been profoundly influential to the feminist movement. After beginning her academic career in 1976, she started publishing her poems and other writings, and, in 1981, she published Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, her magnum opus that had actually been written when she was an undergraduate. She, too, sadly passed away recently in December 2021.

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