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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.

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bell hooks, the activist, poet, feminist and author, died December 15 at her home in Berea, Kentucky of an undisclosed illness. She was 69. She was surrounded by friends and family at the time of her death.

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.

David Muir is as steadfast as can be when it comes to his journalistic work, and fans could see it with his latest post as they were rendered emotional.MORE: GMA star David Muir spent years restoring $7million lakeside home - insideThe Good Morning America anchor shared a photograph from his reporting in Kentucky, which had been ravaged by a tornado that left several dead and even more missing.In the picture, he stood in front of a building that had been torn apart by the winds as he readied

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Elle Smith was crowned 2021 Miss USA at Monday night’s pageant.Smith won the competition at the River Spirit Casino Resort in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The University of Kentucky graduate will now represent the USA in the Miss Universe pageant on December 12 in Eilat, Israel.The university congratulated Smith on Twitter.Smith, who majored in journalism, is a reporter for WHAS11 News. Smith’s colleagues also congratulated her on the winning the Miss USA 2021 title.