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In Its Quest to Become Anti-Racist, Duke Must Reckon With a Past That Echoes Into the Present On the job training session at campus dining in 1947. “Can Duke really become anti-racist?” The question was emblazoned on the cover of the 2020 winter edition of the Duke University alumni magazine and probed with essays, feature stories, and text excerpts from podcasts—mostly responding to the larger racial reckoning that swept America following George Floyd’s death. Letters to the editor in the issue offered mixed reviews about the magazine’s coverage of the Black Lives Ma...

Full Frame festival director Deirdre Haj to exit Deirdre Haj, executive director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, is to depart from the Durham, North Carolina-set event next month. Haj (pictured) first joined the annual international event dedicated ... February 5, 2021 Deirdre Haj, executive director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, is to depart from the Durham, North Carolina-set event next month. Haj (pictured)...

Now, with the virtual screening bringing Clark and White back to Duke, the story of how “Assassins'' came to be is reaching full circle.

How Alice Rose George Shaped a Pivotal Era in Photography Susan Meiselas, Alec Soth, Nan Goldin, and others reflect on the life and work of a legendary photo editor and poet. Photograph by Susan L. Stewart Remembrances - January 22, 2021 Perhaps the clearest picture of Alice Rose George, beloved editor, curator, teacher, and poet, who died on December 22, 2020, in Los Angeles at the age of seventy-six, can be seen through her own eye, connecting—as she so innovatively did in the books and magazines where she made her mark—all the seeming and revelatory contrasts of her life. George’s ...

Lucas Willard graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Communications. He also attended the Salt