When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the ...

Named after jazz artist Mary Lou Williams, the center that opened in 1983 celebrates Black culture and history This story is part of the Working Toward Racial Justice series. A little before noon on ...

Bela Karolyi, the larger-than-life coach who led Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton to Olympic ... showing a carousel of photos that included a black-and-white photo of her with the coach on ...

In the interim, other campus spaces have served as welcoming spaces for Black students, including the temporary Mary Lou Williams Center space on the third floor of the Bryan Center, a student ...