bell hooks

More than 100 community members and officials gathered Friday at the Pennyroyal Area Museum to pay tribute to Hopkinsville's pioneering Black author and feminist, bell hooks.

Following the street dedication on March 1, the Pennyroyal Area Museum will open a newly created bell hooks Community Room.

The show takes viewers into the author's childhood in Hopkinsville.

The documentary will be broadcast on Kentucky Education Television on Feb. 27 and Feb. 29 following preview screenings in Louisville and Lexington.

The discussion is planned at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Carnegie Library.

Writers of all ages are invited to submit works, including poetry, essays and short stories, by the Feb. 15 deadline.

Twenty-three years after the book was published, bell hooks' "All About Love" has remained on the New York Times Best Sellers list for 56 weeks.

The unveiling occurred on the 70th anniversary of her birth in Hopkinsville as Gloria Jean Watkins.

"Memories offer us a world where there is no death, where we are sustained by rituals of regard and recollection," bell hooks wrote in "Belonging: A Culture of Place"

The painting by Hopkinsville artist Paula Gieseke honors the legacy of Gloria Jean Watkins, the feminist author known by her pen name bell hooks.

The mural is on the west wall of the Christian County Historical Society building at Ninth and Liberty streets.

The exhibit features the work of 54 artists from across the Commonwealth with their interpretation of the theme “Tell Us a Story.”