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bell hooks, Black author and feminist thinker, dies in Kentucky in US at 69

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bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics intertwined helped shape academic and popular debates over the past 40 years, has died. She was 69. In a statement issued through William Morrow Publishers, hooks’ family announced that she died Wednesday in Berea, Kentucky, home to the … Read more

Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97

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Save Photo Denis Mack Smith in an undated photograph. Denis Mack Smith, whose myth-destroying interpretation of Italian unification infuriated many Italian historians but established him as the pre-eminent British writer on modern Italy, died on July 11 at his home in Oxford, England. He was 97. In his first book, “Cavour and Garibaldi, 1860: A … Read more