For the seventh year, Emory hosted Latino middle- and high school students to inspire hope and remind them that attending college is an achievable goal no matter what their background might be.
The nonpartisan Emory Votes Initiative is making voting easier for faculty, staff and students. Members across the community are voting for the first time, helping register others and getting the word out to drive higher participation rates.
The Burroughs girls’ basketball team participated in two summer leagues, the Redlands tournament and Palm Springs tournament. Lady Burros Head Coach Laura Larson said via email the team finished the
Published December 28. 2020 4:34PM By
The Day and theday.com have a longstanding holiday tradition of publishing a series on interesting local people who come to our attention or more often, whom the newsroom seeks out, because the subjects are typically not in the limelight. The articles share a theme, and the one for 2020 was crystal clear: people who stepped up to help others in this difficult year. They are the bright lights of 2020.
Eleven articles in all, done by Day reporters and photojournalists, recount the response of people, through their jobs or volunteering, to the familiar litany of hardship: pandemic deaths, emergency calls, recuperation, hunger, job loss, evictions and no way to pay the rent; and in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, the need to re-assert the pervasiveness of racism. The effects of pandemic and protest often overlapped.