The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change

Press Releases 2021

  • UofM’s Hooks Institute to Host Virtual Policy Papers Presentation on Race in the Time of COVID  | Oct. 29
  • Hooks Institute to host panel on combating HIV in Memphis |  Oct. 7
  • Hooks Institute to host Facebook Live event “You Can't Teach That!: Prohibited Concepts in Instruction in Public Schools” | Sept. 29
  • Hooks Institute partners with Metal Museum to discuss Exploring African American Jewelry: Art, Adornment and Manifestations of African American Cultural Identity | Sept. 8
  • UofM's Hooks Institute partners with Memphis Brooks Museum to explore work of African American artist Elizabeth Catlett | Aug. 30
  • Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change announces UofM faculty Sohye Lee and Jaime Sabel as recipients of Social Change Research Grants  | Aug. 24
  • Hooks Institute Board welcomes LaDonna R. Young and Steve Swain | July 28
  • UofM's Hooks Institute Selects “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America” by Marcia Chatelain as the 2020 Hooks National Book Award Winner | July 14 
  • UofM’s Hooks Institute Receives $40,000 Grant from Truist to Support the Hooks African American Male Initiative | July 1
  • UofM’s Hooks Institute welcomes Richard Saunders as visiting scholar to research Fayette County Civil Rights Movement  | June 24
  • UofM’s Hooks Institute Announces Inaugural Academic Research Fellows  | June 17
  • UofM’s Hooks Institute to Host Critical Race Theory Virtual Discussion on Facebook Live | June 10
  • UofM’s Hooks Institute Announces 2020 Hooks National Book Award Finalists | April 14
  • Viola Harris McFerren and Fayette County Civil Rights Movement Featured in Tennessee State Museum's Suffrage Exhibit | April 13
  • Hooks Institute welcomes Yolanda Baptist-Green, Reverend Dr. Lasimba Gray Jr. and Kenya Hooks as Board Members | April 7
  • UofM Hooks Institute to host Social Justice Lecture on Civil Rights Activist Nannie Helen Burroughs - Feb. 25
  • Inaugural Hooks Institute Social Justice Series to be held Feb. 24 on Facebook Live - Feb. 18

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