NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group's stature, has died. He was 85. State Rep. Ulysses Jones, a ...

A women’s social group, as photographed by the Hooks Brothers (Courtesy of Flow Museum of Art & Culture) In 1906, the Hooks Brothers, Robert and Henry, started their family-run photography business, ...

Civil rights activist Frances Dancy Hooks passed away on Thursday. Hooks was the widow of Benjamin Hooks and a champion for social change. Hooks fought for women’s rights, civil rights, and sought to ...

NASHVILLE Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, who shrugged off courtroom slurs as a young lawyer before earning a pioneering judgeship and later reviving a flagging NAACP, died Thursday in Memphis.

Plenty of Northwestern University alumni say they bleed purple and white. Then there was Donald L. Hook. A 1974 graduate, Hook hadn't missed a home football game in Evanston in 41 years - a streak ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Benjamin L. Hooks was an Executive Director and CEO for NAACP with 57 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1982 Debate. The year with the most videos ...

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Gordon L. Hook, 90, of Coventry, beloved husband of 50 years to the late Mary J. (Stephens) Hook, passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on Wednesday, September 3, 2025. He was ...