A new exhibit on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta is bringing civil rights leaders together. Curators have worked for more than three years to catalog roughly 1,000 boxes of historic documents that tell the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an early civil rights group first presided over by the Rev. Martin [...]
Extensive SCLC Exhibit Documents Early Days of ‘American-Style Apartheid’
February 24, 2013 | Posted by
New Study Suggests Some Moms OK With Being CEO of Home
January 18, 2013 | Posted by
When mom is the boss at home, she may have a harder time being the boss at work. New research suggests that women, but not men, become less interested in pursuing workplace power when they view that they are in control of decision-making in the home. This shift in thinking affects career choices without women [...]
Prof. Tyrone Forman to Head Emory Univ. Program on Race and Difference
December 14, 2012 | Posted by
Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference (JWJI) has appointed Emory sociology professor Tyrone Forman, a renowned scholar of social change, race and ethnic relations, as its new director. Forman is leading the institute’s work to build the JWJI as a national destination for interdisciplinary public scholarship and teaching [...]
Emory University Apologizes for Dental School’s Anti-Semitic Actions in 1950s
October 11, 2012 | Posted by
Hundreds of people turned out at Emory on Wednesday as the school apologized for anti-Semitic actions at its dental school in the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1961, 68 percent of Jewish students in the dental school failed or were held back. “I got the letter. I was totally unaware. Nobody ever called me into their office – [...]
U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey on ‘Elegy’ Poem for Her Father
August 15, 2012 | Posted by
Natasha Trethewey was named the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States in June, becoming the first Southerner to receive the honor since Robert Penn Warren, in 1986, and the first African-American since Rita Dove, in 1993. A professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, in Atlanta, Trethewey is the author of three [...]
Two Atlanta Universities Ranked Among Top 100 in the World
July 13, 2012 | Posted by
The Atlanta Business Chronicle is reporting that two Georgia universities, and more specifically two Atlanta universities, were ranked among the top 100 in the world – Emory and Georgia Tech. The schools ranked numbers 81 and 87 respectively on the 2012 World University Rankings. Saudi Arabia-based Center for World University Rankings bases the list on seven factors: [...]
Atlanta’s Emory University Aquires One of the Largest Black Photography Collections
July 9, 2012 | Posted by
You are invited to view the newly acquired Robert Langmuir African American Photo Collection at Emory University and you imagine spending an hour or so in a cool room packed with old photo albums that smell a bit like a musty attic. But as soon as you walk into the sunny meeting room in the [...]
