Mourners paid respects Monday to longtime NAACP executive director Benjamin L. Hooks as he lay in repose at the Detroit church where he preached for 30 years. Hooks was pastor at the Greater New Mount ...

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 ...

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 ...

Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, who shrugged off courtroom slurs as a young lawyer before earning a pioneering judgeship and reviving a flagging NAACP, died Thursday in Memphis. He was 85.

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.

MEMPHIS, April 15 (UPI) -- Benjamin L. Hooks, who championed minorities as the NAACP's executive director for 16 years, died at his Memphis home Thursday, the NAACP said. He was 85. NAACP spokeswoman ...