On NBC, Myriam J. A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities, bell hooks’ legacy within academia and her influence on Chancy’s own creative work. “For me, bell hooks was a towering voice in American academia and intellectual life,” she said. “She made certain concepts on the subjects of race, feminist, gender, class and love accessible to a public beyond academia while being unrelenting in her advocacy for Black people and particularly for Black women in the pursuit of a better, more just society for everyone.”