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New documentary focuses on Valerie Boyd’s life and research into Black women writers

Posted onAuthorMaureen McGavin

Valerie Boyd spent much of her adult life sharing her knowledge about Black women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker. Now a new documentary about her life and scholarship highlights her own contributions as a writer, researcher, journalist, and educator. “Zora Head: The Life and Scholarship of Valerie Boyd” will debut during Read More …

Photographer Dawoud Bey and “The Emory Project”

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“Who are you? What do you care deeply about in the world?” These are the questions posed by photographer Dawoud Bey to members of the campus community when he commenced The Emory Project in 2010. This project followed his highly regarded exhibition “Class Pictures” that featured profiles of individual high school students from three very Read More …