The late Black feminist and insurgent writer bell hooks gave a lecture at Fountain Street Church in 2006

Editor’s note: I have been working with Fountain Street Church and looking at a substantial amount of archival materials they have. Today’s post is only possible because Fountain Street Church has provided me access to their archives and they want this information to be public and available to the community. I will be hosting the archival material on the Grand Rapids People’s History Project site, but also posting here on GRIID. This is part of a series of postings from the archival material at Fountain Street Church.

So far I have posted talks by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, James Meredith, Dick Gregory, and Amy Goodman, all of whom spoke at Fountain Street Church.

Today, I want to share an audio recording of a lecture by the author and intellectual bell hooks, a lecture she gave in October of 2006 at Foundation Street Church. hooks, who had written dozens of books on racism, white supremacy, feminism, capitalism, media representation and culture, focused on the theme of feminism as a revolutionary movement, especially when the feminism being practiced challenges the systems of white supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy. Listen to the lecture found here below.