bell hooks Dies: Feminist, Activist, Author & Scholar Was 69

Denis O’Dell, the British film producer whose association with The Beatles earned him the rare honor of being mentioned, if obliquely, in one of the group’s songs, died of natural causes at his home in Spain last night. He was 98.

A man has died after being hit by a train near Heaton Chapel station.

Rod Stewart and Johnny Hallyday has died at the age of 68 following a battle with cancer.  The British musician, who was a member of the iconic pop-rock band The Wombles before he went on to perform alongside Rod Stewart and tour the US during the 1980s, passed away yesterday, friends of the guitarist announced today.

Sally Ann Howes has sadly passed away.

Christmas screening of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” but the actor’s nephew said she ultimately died peacefully in her sleep.The cause of Howes' death has not been released.The New York Times reported she died in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, on Sunday.Howes, an English actor, began her career on the big screen at the age of 12 in the 1943 film “Thursday’s Child,” where she played a schoolgirl turned successful actor.

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Celebrated poet, professor, essayist, author, and activist Gloria Jean Watkins (bell hooks) passed away this morning at 69. According to a statement from her family, hooks transitioned peacefully in her Berea, Kentucky home.

the college’s statement said.Born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on September 25, 1952, hooks adopted the pen name “bell hooks” from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. She kept her name in lowercase letters to shift the attention from her identity to her ideas, while intentionally breaking culturally imposed grammar rules.She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University in 1973, a master’s in English from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976

Gloria Jean Watkins, an author, poet and acclaimed feminist icon and academic best known by her pen name bell hooks, has died. She was 69.Her sisters announced the news Wednesday via a press release confirming hooks died at her home in Berea, Kentucky with her family and friends by her side.

NEW YORK -- bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics were intertwined made her among the most influential thinkers of her time, has died. She was 69.In a statement issued through William Morrow Publishers, hooks' family announced that she died Wednesday in Berea, Kentucky, home to the bell hooks center at Berea College.

Blue was by far one of the most popular boybands of the noughties.Together Duncan James, Lee Ryan, Simon Webb and Anthony Costa dominated the charts with hit singles such as All Rise, Too Close and One Love.Their album All Rise sold 1.4 million copies and was certified platinum in the UK.The band even collaborated with Sir Elton John on a cover of his hit, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word.

Steve Bronski, a cofounding member of the British synth-pop trio Bronski Beat, died Thursday. The BBC reported his age as 61. No cause of death or other details were given.

Denis O’Brien, best known for producing the comedy Monty Python’s Life of Brian with former Beatle George Harrison, died Dec. 3 in a Swindon, UK hospital. He was 80 and passed from intra-abdominal sepsis, his daughter said.

MONSTA X have released a preview of their new song ‘Blow Your Mind’, from their upcoming English-language studio album ‘The Dreaming’.‘The Dreaming’ will notably feature the previously-released single ‘One Day’, which dropped in September, as well as its lead single ‘You Problem’, for which a music video is also set to arrive on December 10 at 2pm KST.“Is it me, is it me you want? / Let me dance, let me dance you off / Take a chance, let’s get it on / I’ll blow your mind / I’ll make you feel,