Take a break from scrolling and enjoy a moment among the flowers at the Duke Campus Farm. The Duke Campus Farm is a one-acre working farm owned and operated by Duke that provides sustainably-grown
Nicholas Carnes Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science Carnes is a political scientist at the Sanford School of Public Policy who studies the causes and
Tracy Kidder began his non-fiction “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” published in 2003, with this sentence, “Six years after the fact, Dr. Paul Edward Farmer reminded me, ‘We met because of a
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.
âCan Duke really become anti-racist?â
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 podcastsâmostly responding to the larger racial reckoning that swept America following George Floydâs death.
Letters to the editor in the issue offered mixed reviews about the magazineâs coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests. But an incendiary letter submitted by Charles Philip Clutts, a 1961 Duke graduate, unleashed anger on social media. Clutts called the âconstant remindersâ of systemic racism âwearisomeâ and said Black men should marry, take care of their children, avoid drugs, stay out of jail, and realize that âacting white by studying is not a bad thing.â