2016 Press Releases

• Hooks Institute Will Host Open House and Panel Discussion On Race, Class and Social Justice in Memphis Oct. 6
• UofM's Benjamin L. Hooks Institute Adds New Director of Development
• UofM's Hooks Institute Selects Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press As 2015 National Book Award Winner
• "20 Years and Counting! The Hooks Institute" The University of Memphis Magazine (Spring 2015) p.14-17
• University of Memphis' Hooks Institute Honors Brownsville, Tenn., Native and JCPenney CEO Marvin R. Ellison
• UofM's Hooks Institute National Book Award Recipient Will Present Lecture and Book Signing on Stokely Carmichael
• Frances Dancy Hooks
• "Frances Dancy Hooks, civil rights leader and widow of Ben Hooks, has died" The Commercial Appeal
• "Memphis educator and philanthropist Frances Hooks passes away at age 88" WREG
• "Frances Dancy Hooks Has Died at Age 88" The Memphis Flyer
• "Frances Hooks, widow of Dr. Benjamin Hooks, dies at age 88" Action news 5
• "LEGACY: Frances Louise Dancy Hooks passes at 88" Tri State Defender
• "Educator And Philanthropist Frances Hooks Passes Away" Channel 24