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