Fabu Phillis Carter, a scholar, educator, and the City of Madison’s first African American Poet Laureate, and Jane Reynolds, ...

Atlanta-born jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams arranged music for greats like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Cab Calloway ...

Michael Douglas Williams passed away peacefully at his home in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, on April 17, 2025. He was born on ...

CLEVELAND — Like many North Carolinians, Fred and Mary Lou Williams of Cleveland watched with horror at the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene last fall. After brainstorming ways they could ...

in 1884 -- Economist Friedrich Hayek in 1899 -- Filmmaker Roberto Rossellini in 1906 -- Musician Mary Lou Williams in 1910 -- Musician Robert Johnson in 1911 -- Naturalist David Attenborough in ...

Every journey of the thousands of new Duke and Duke Kunshan graduates tells a different story. The students came from around ...

Born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs in Atlanta on May 8, 1910, Mary Lou Williams was one of the most influential jazz musicians in the ...

After all, Mary Lou Williams was dubbed the “Little Piano Girl of East Liberty.” She had to be playing that piano, somewhere. The archive, or the institutional record, doesn’t always hold ...