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.
The 1927 graduate of Howard University's medical school treated patients in his hometown for 50 years and ran Hopkinsville's only hospital for Black patients during segregation.
In the second part of a three-part Black History Month series about Dr. Phillip Brooks, Grace Abernethy explores the history of the property where Brooks built Hopkinsville's only hospital for Black patients during segregation.
