2020 Press and News Releases

• Hooks Institute’s policy papers examining voting rights, access and apathy available in print and digital versions | Oct. 22
• Hooks Institute for Social Change to Host Online Event: Civil Rights Challenges faced by the LGBTQIA+ Black Community | Sept. 25
• Hooks Institute to examine voting in Tennessee and the nation at annual policy papers presentation | Sept. 14
• Hooks Institute Board Welcomes Detlef Heck | Aug. 25
• Hooks Institute Selects Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power as Winner of National Book Award | July 21
• Benjamin L. Hooks Institute's mission to help Black men persist in college | Opinion by Rorie Trammel, Commercial Appeal | July 8
• Hooks Institute Board Welcomes Marvin Todd | July 2
• UofM’s Hooks Institute to host online conversation on reforming communities to value, protect and invest in Black and Brown lives | June 18
• We the People Must Fix This | Opinion by Daphene McFerren, The Daily Memphian | June 6
• UofM Students to Lead Hooks Institute-Produced Video Series on Civil Rights History | Mar. 10
• UofM’s Hooks Institute Announces 2019 Hooks National Book Award Finalists | Feb. 26
• UofM’s Hooks Institute to Host National Civil Rights Leader Kristen Clarke at 2020 Join Hands for Change Luncheon April 23 | Feb. 24
• Hooks Institute Board Welcomes Cook, Meyers and Stroud and Announces Officers for 2020-21 | Jan. 29
• UofM’s Hooks Institute and Fayette County Public Schools to Host Exhibit on Civil Rights Movement | Jan. 23