The Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, Hoptown Chronicle, the Christian County Literacy Council, and the bell hooks Legacy Group invite you to the next gathering of the bell hooks Book Club, an informal group who will come together in conversation of Hopkinsville native bell hooks and her extensive work.
After our meeting in February, it was decided that the group would meet more frequently to discuss shorter readings in greater depth. Next week’s meeting will discuss the Introduction and Chapter One: “The Heart of the Matter” of hooks’s 2001 book Salvation: Black People and Love. Published as part of her love trilogy, Salvation “examines everything from love in significant works of black literature to popular television shows to rap music, and how these portrayals of love have affected and represented the black community.” (from bellhooksbooks.com)
Copies of Salvation are available in The Vault by Planters Bank Museum Shop, online through our Shopify store, to check out from the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library, or from Amazon or your favorite bookseller.
The bell hooks Legacy Group is a grassroots alliance that nurtures the meaning and impact of the writer’s stories, essays and poems in her hometown, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where she began life as Gloria Jean Watkins. Follow bellhookslegacygroup on Instagram for more information.
For more information, visit www.MuseumsofHopkinsville.org, contact the Museums at 270-887-4270, or visit us in person at the Pennyroyal Area Museum.