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The "Read About Afghanistan" book display, which was organized by Yasmeen Shorish, is being featured online and in person in Rose Library.

Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, a partnership between Emory Arts and artist-activist Charmaine Minniefield will place three praise houses in metro Atlanta to uplift the African American history of those communities.

Emory Libraries is welcoming students, faculty and staff to fall semester with new services and spaces. Stepping inside the Woodruff Library building is new for some students, including sophomores who chose to learn remotely last year.

Documentary debut The film also will be shown during In the Wake of Slavery and Dispossession, a symposium hosted by Emory Sept. 29-Oct. 1. A collection of Rev. C.T. Vivian’s papers in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library has seen a recent jump in activity, with new material added from the family, research conducted for an upcoming documentary and instructional use by Emory classes. The materials have been in particularly high demand since the civil rights activist passed away on July 17, 2020, at age 95. The C.T. and Octavia Vivian papers were originally placed ...

Two Emory experts have been nominated to serve on the national Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board to examine government records of unpunished, racially motivated murders of Black Americans during the modern civil rights era (from the mid 1940s to the late 1960s) and make those records easier to access. Gabrielle Dudley is an instruction archivist with Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, where she partners with faculty to design undergraduate and graduate courses and assignments. She also finds ways for faculty to use resources from the Rose Library in the...