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Since its inception five years ago, Duke’s Black Convocation Ceremony has provided an evening of community and recognition for Duke's black undergraduate and graduate students.
At its first open forum meeting of the year—the first of four—the Board of Trustees reviewed highlights from the May 2019 board meeting and discussed its plans for the upcoming academic year.
Students stranded in a restaurant, a shuttle to a new apartment building and eventually an evacuation all added up to a dramatic two days for students in DukeEngage-New Orleans.
When Dave Karger, Trinity ’95, entered Duke’s Career Center as a first-year to seek an internship in the entertainment industry, he was met with surprise — the employees do not typically encounter first-years. Still, that one visit led Karger to an unpaid summer internship in New York. Now, as a TCM host and correspondent for the Today Show and IMDB, Karger traces his career back to that first-year visit.
There is invariably a point near the end of every summer when, freed from the helpful bounds of the workweek, the days begin to bleed into one another. Sometimes it’s in July, sometimes later in August, but up to this point in my life I’ve rarely gone through a summer without that familiar period of limbo, when the only responsibilities are the ones you give yourself.
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Each year, DEMAN Weekend attracts accomplished creative professionals to campus for a weekend of networking, learning and career exploration. The Duke Entertainment, Media, & Arts Network’s signature event, which is celebrating its 10th year, will take place Nov. 1 and 2.
In a classical music culture that recognizes composers as male, white and dead, Florence Price, a black woman, is certainly an anomaly. Her resilience amid a difficult life has resonated with a new generation of listeners, including Duke faculty, staff and students.
It's now Duke's turn to play the role of heavy favorite.
“Man is born free, yet everywhere, he is in plastic handcuffs.”
The rhythm and blues artist Mavis Staples — a “staple” of American music — is set to perform at the historic Carolina Theatre, returning with Duke Performances Oct. 3.
To Marshall N. Price, the Nasher Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, “Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now,” is “a paradigm-shifting exhibition in many, many ways.”
For the past five years, the Center for Documentary Studies (known more commonly as CDS) has presented Audio Under the Stars, an outdoor audio festival created by Jenny March and Elizabeth Friend. Featuring themes such as “Night and Day,” “Super/Natural,” and “Appetites and Desires,” the festival brings many in the Duke community and Durham together to lay out under the stars and listen to audio documentaries, pieces composed simply of sound unaccompanied by video.
From Haitian Creole to modern dance, Gaspard Louis has a history of bringing his languages to the Duke community.
Since its founding in 1991 by graduate students, the Arts of the Moving Images’ Screen/Society series has been the center of eclectic film programming on campus. Each semester, co-programming coordinators Hank Okazaki and Jason Sudak curate Screen/Society’s offerings. Free to both the Duke and Durham communities, the program’s selection offers an assortment of films, with an emphasis on international and arthouse films that are not otherwise easily accessible.
We thought of the [Black] men, women, and children that had gone into the buildings to make up Duke University...the blood to be squeezed out of black bodies to build a university for white minds… only white minds… If white people had labored in the factories of the American tobacco industry for less than enough on which to live, they have had the satisfaction of knowing that their children may reap the benefits in a school that provides the very best training. If [Blacks] have done the same thing, it must pierce their hearts to know that Duke University has been built for every other race under the sun but theirs...[the African American] stands alone as the one human being on earth too loathsome in the eyes of the American white man to share the benefits of Duke University.
The Duke Entertainment, Media & Arts Network — more commonly referred to as DEMAN — will host its annual DEMAN Arts & Media weekend Nov. 1 and 2 on Duke's campus. The events, which include panels hosted by alumni and career-oriented activities, are numerous, and we understand how daunting that can be. (Where do I go? Who should I see? What on earth are “Guac and Talks”?)
The Duke Law School is opening a new center dedicated to the science of criminal justice.
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In a unanimous state court ruling, a three-judge panel in a Wake County court struck down North Carolina's state legislative maps as unconstitutional.
