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The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis

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    • “You Can’t Teach That!”: Prohibited Concepts in Instruction in Public Schools
    • Focus on Memphis Series: Combating HIV Epidemic in Memphis
    • Hooks Fellow Publishes Study on Unemployment of the Socially Disadvantaged During COVID-19
    • Hooks Fellow Publishes Two Articles
    • Hooks Institute announces recipients of Social Change Research Grants
    • Hooks Policy Papers: Race in the Time of COVID
    • Hooks Research Fellow Publishes New Book
    • Hooks Scholar in Residence Awarded University Research Professorship
    • Hooks Scholar in Residence Wins National Book Award
    • Hooks Scholar in Residence Wins Outstanding Book Award
    • On the Frontlines: Social Justice Today
    • Hooks Fellow Appointed to the IRS Taxpayer Advocacy Panel
    • Hooks Scholar Wins the Outstanding Mentor Award
    • Past Announcements and Events
      • Announcing the 2020 Hooks National Book Award Finalists
      • Book Talk with Kelisha Graves
      • Critical Race Theory: What It Is and What It Isn’t
      • Hooks Fellow Named Director of Social Justice Institute
      • Hooks Fellow to Participate in a Reading on Whiteness
      • Hooks Institute partners with Memphis Brooks Museum to explore work of African American artist Elizabeth Catlett
      • Hooks Institute Selects “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America” by Marcia Chatelain as the 2020 Hooks National Book Award Winner
      • Hooks Represented at the Society for the Study of Black Religion Induction
      • Hooks Fellows Discuss #CRT on Podcast
      • UofM Hooks Institute to host Social Justice Lecture on Civil Rights Activist Nannie Helen Burroughs
      • Hooks Welcomes Distinguished Leaders to Our Advisory Board!
      • Inaugural Hooks Institute Social Justice Series to be held Feb. 24 on Facebook Live 
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      • Hooks Scholar in Residence Inducted into the MLK Collegium of Scholars
      • Viola Harris McFerren and Fayette County Civil Rights Movement Featured in Tennessee State Museum’s Suffrage Exhibit
      • Hooks Institute Announces Social Change Grants Program
      • Hooks Institute to Host Panel Discussion About Police Reform in Memphis and the Nation
      • Hooks Research Fellow Edits New Book Series
      • “No Future in This Country” Named To the List of “Best New Rhetoric Books”
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