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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. The first gathering of 2025 will be on Monday, February 24 at 6pm at the Pennyroyal Area Museum. The group will discuss 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. She also discusses love and how it has affected black figures throughout history, from the days of slavery to the civil rights and Black Power movements up to today. This book is an incredibly influential and meaningful work of healing among races, using the truly universal experience of love to bring us together.” (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.
For more information, visit www.MuseumsofHopkinsville.org, contact the Museums at 270-887-4270, or visit us in person at the Pennyroyal Area Museum.
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217 E 9th St, Hopkinsville, KY, United States, Kentucky 42240
