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

The renovated Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture will be brighter and more airy, modernized while retaining some popular features like an orange-hued color scheme. The renovation of the space, ...

Photo by Jared Lazarus Joseph Asamoah-Boadu is a Mary Lou Williams Center ambassador and incoming president of the school’s Black Student Alliance. For the past 18 months, he and his classmates who ...