"Building Emory's African American Collections: Highlights from the Curatorial Career of Randall K. Burkett," an exhibition opening Sept. 13 at Emory's Woodruff Library, will feature treasures from collections and Burkett's stories of their discovery and acquisition.
"Journals sometimes save our lives," Alice Walker mused as she paged through volumes of her reflections during a visit to Emory's Rose Library. Walker is working with scholar Valerie Boyd, who is editing her journals for publication.
Poets of the past and present connected in Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library as young people on campus for the Brave New Voices festival explored materials ranging from Langston Hughes to Tupac Shakur.
The life and legacy of Pulitzer Prize wining author Alice Walker, who placed her extensive archive at Emory University in late 2007, is the subject of a Nov. 6 BronzeLens Film Festival documentary: "Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth" at the Ferst Center in Atlanta.
Pearl Cleage, the nationally recognized playwright, poet, novelist, social activist and Atlanta resident, has placed her papers at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.