Duke Divinity School is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Office of Black Church Studies, culminating in an evening celebration on April 17 featuring Grammy Award-winning gospel singer Yolanda Adams and the Martin Luther King Lecture Series on April 18 with the Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Hale. 2021 OBCS graduates in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Office of Black
Under normal circumstances, the Duke Leadership Academy offers participants a chance to challenge themselves, build connections and harness their collective brain power to offer Duke leaders insights into how Duke can work better. But the academy’s 2020-21 class, which graduated from the program in December 2021, operated under nothing close to normal circumstances, convening in early 2020, prior to the pandemic, but then COVID-19 arrived, which put the academy on pause.
Until January, MacAllister was learning remotely, like every other SFUSD student. There wasn t a lot of communication about when schools would open back up, explained MacAllister. Barely any time I was happy in that time
Kate Larsen: Did you ever feel like you thought about hurting yourself?
MacAllister: To be honest, sometimes, yeah. But I would never do it. He was deteriorating emotionally and socially and the isolation was contributing to that, said MacAllister s mom, Renee Gonsalves. He used to be a happy child, he used to smile at people. There was no smile left, no laughter in the house.