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With a collective of Atlanta institutions, Atlanta’s Out of Hand Theater commits to anti-racist action through a monthly virtual dinner series. Featuring arts, experts, and small conversations, Equitable Dinners is working to expose and change the narrative about inequities suffered by people of color, amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Setting the Table for Racial Equity
Jericho Brown, Emory’s Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Creative Writing, has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his latest collection, The Tradition. Brown also lent his powerful words to capture the spirit of the Emory community in a new video that honors the #EmoryTogether ethos.
Distinguished Traditions
As part of the yearlong series profiling the 2019 Emory Entrepreneur Award winners, Stephanie Benedetto 06L, co-founder and CEO of Queen of Raw, talks to EmoryWire about her business, being a working parent quarantining with two small children, and how she is saving the world, one bolt of fabric at a time.
Saving the world, one bolt of fabric at a time
"Hope is a powerful force," says Bryan Stevenson in his 2020 Emory Commencement address. "Hope will sometimes make you stand up, even when people say, 'Sit down.' It will make you speak, even when people say, 'Be quiet.'"
Commencement 2020
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