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 ...

Benjamin L. Hooks, one-time executive director of the NAACP, died early Thursday at his home in Nashville after a long illness, reports the Associated Press. The civil-rights leader and advocate for ...

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 ...

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.

Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, a lawyer, minister and pioneering judge who revived a flagging NAACP after he became its executive director in the late 1970s, has died. He was 85. Hooks died ...

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 ...

Larry L. Hook, 73, died in his sleep on September 24th, 2016 while a surgery rehab patient at Good Samaritan Health Care Center. Larry was born in Oklahoma in 1943 to George and Madalin Hook. He ...

Margaret is survived by her brother, Robert L. Hook II and sister-in-law, Marsha Hook of Auburn, CA. Survivors also include nephew Robert L. Hook III of Venice, CA. and nieces Kim Crone and Heidi ...

Benjamin L. Hooks, who for 15 years led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as it struggled to remain an effective champion of minorities in an era of rising political ...