aired on HBO as the leading segment of a three-part anthology entitled, Cosmic Slop, which focused on Black science fiction. In 1970, Bell published "Race, Racism, and American Law" which would pioneer the unifying civil-rights themes that became prominent throughout American history. It contained the idea that racial progress would be achieved only when it aligned with white people's interests. Along with this, in 1992, Bell published a collection of short stories named "Faces at the Bottom of the Well", which highlighted a radical vision of the persistence of racism in American society. Death On October 5, 2011, Bell died at the age of 80 from carcinoid cancer at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. " At the time, the Associated Press reported: "The dean at NYU, Richard Revesz, said, 'For more than 20 years, the law school community has been profoundly shaped by Derrick's unwavering passion for civil rights and community justice, and his leadership as a scholar, teacher, and activist.'" He loved his students in a compassionate and encouraging way – he even taught the week before his death. Bell has been memorialized at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law with the Derrick A. Bell Constitutional Law Commons which was opened on March 20, 2013, in the school's Barco Law Library. Bell was also honored with the renaming of the school's community law clinic that provides legal assistance to local low-income residents to the Derrick Bell Community Legal Clinic. Two fellowship positions within the school are also named for Bell. There continues to be lectures regarding Bell's teachings and concepts at NYU Law School, and Harvard Law School. They discuss Bell's teachings of racism in America and explore the future of race relations and racial justice in the United States. Many have connected his teachings to the police brutality and Black Lives Matter movements in 2020 and 2021. Selected bibliography Race, Racism and American Law (1973, Little Brown & Co.; 6th ed., 2008) And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice (1987) Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (1992) Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protestor (Beacon Press, 1994) Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home (1996) Constitutional Conflicts (Anderson Press, 1997) Afrolantica Legacies (Third World Press, 1998) Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth (Bloomsbury, 2002) Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board