Hooks Institute 2025 Press Release

• UofM’s Hooks Institute Announces Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid as the 2024 Hooks National Book Award Winner  | December 2

• UofM’s Hooks Institute Announces 2024 Hooks National Book Award Finalists | September 26

• Hooks Institute Names Art Award Finalists, Hosts “Art = Freedom” Exhibition | September 26

• Hooks Institute Calls for Submissions for Art Award and Exhibition | July 15

• Hooks Institute’s Pillars of Progress Awards Honors Organizations and Individuals Leading Social Change | April 25

• Hooks Institute to Honor Local “Pillars of Progress” at Gala Celebrating Social Change Leaders | April 18

• Hooks Institute to Honor Memphis Organizations, Individuals Leading Social Change as ‘Pillars of Progress’ in Gala Event | February 27

• Hooks Institute Student Success Program Awarded Grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis | February 21

• Hooks Institute Commemorates 100th Birthday of Founder Benjamin L. Hooks with Centennial Celebration | January 24