Stories

William Harris Jr. puts the shine on hallowed hoop ground

Actor • Writer • Director • Producer

When her high school classmates were in study hall, a teenaged Cynthia Rudin would sneak into the practice room and pound through the soap operatic flourishes of Rachmaninoff. Her favorite, though, was Ravel; she loved his and his French contemporaries’ impressionistic tides of heady emotion.

In West Africa, Duke eye surgeon Lloyd Williams is helping local doctors restore sight to the blind, a mission that is both easier and harder than you’d think.

Stephen Hawthornthwaite’s Company, Rothy’s, Creates Shoes From Discarded Plastic and Ocean Trash

Why a $10+ billion endowment doesn’t mean mink hats for everyone, and what it DOES mean

How Duke parent Laurence Belfer helped to shape the biggest global day of philanthropy

The boots haunted him. Thirty-two hundred of them tromping in formation down a narrow dirt road that ran between swamps and through pine barrens three miles outside of Wilmington, North Carolina, their percussion pounding into the earth as 1,600 American Colored Troops advanced into the enemy fire guarding Wilmington.

Nakeie Montgomery lit up the lacrosse field and even played a season of Duke football, but his racial equity work was his proudest achievement