Nearly two months after Emory committed to advance racial justice in response to demands from the Coalition of Black Organizations and Clubs (CBOC), the University has made slow progress toward realizing the initiatives promised by President Gregory L. Fenves in an Aug. 13 letter to the community. In June, CBOC released a list of demands [...]
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U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) speaks to students on Oct. 31 in Harland Cinema, encouraging them to support Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams' campaign./Ayushi Agarwal, Photo Editor John Lewis, a U.S. congressman and civil rights icon who began his lifelong fight for racial justice as a college student, died on Friday. He was 80. His [...]
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Ahmaud Arbery/Courtesy of Reuters The killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man who was shot by two white men during his midday run in Brunswick, Georgia, has sparked a nationwide uproar. Emory black students and professors were left reeling as feelings of trauma and agony have resurfaced over another killing of an unarmed black [...]
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Director of the Creative Writing Program and Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Creative Writing Jericho Brown./ Courtesy Emory Photo Jericho Brown, Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Creative Writing and director of the Creative Writing Program, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry on May 4 for his most recent collection, “The Tradition.” This collection was [...]
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Helen Bradshaw, Contributing In the wake of the University’s decision to cancel all Spring 2020 study abroad programs in Italy, all nine Emory students in the country will have left by Friday, according to Associate Dean for International and Summer Programs Sarah Gouzoules. “Due to the challenges of rearranging travel, not all students have been [...]
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