Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture

  • Final Honors

    Final Honors

    Each year during Commencement weekend, the Mary Lou Williams Center supports Final Honors, a Black student graduation ceremony and reception, for all affiliated seniors and their families.

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  • 30th Anniversary

    30th Anniversary

    Show your support for the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture (MLWC) Click here for more details.

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  • Celebrating 50 years of Black presence at Duke

    Celebrating 50 years!

    Celebrating 50 years of Black presence at Duke

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  • Jazz

    JAZZ

    Fill your Wednesday evenings with live jazz and the exquisite company of jazz lovers from the campus and community in an energetic and engaging atmosphere.

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Who We Are: 

The Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture strives to promote racial understanding, build community, and foster an appreciation for and increase knowledge of Black people, Black history, Black culture, and the vast contributions of people of the African Diaspora. Read more.

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Come Celebrate Mary Lou Day!!!
Apr 11, 2013

The Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture
Cordially Invites You to Enjoy A Late Afternoon Delight
featuring Live Jazz & Fabulous Dessert

Wednesday, May 1, 2013
3:00 - 5:00
Mary Lou Williams Center
201 West Union Building

In celebration of YOU, our 30th Anniversary & in gratitude for another successful year...
In honor of our namesake’s 103rd birthday & 
In gratitude for the awesome service of our graduating student staff!!! 

THIS WILL BE THE LAST MARY LOU DAY BEFORE OUR BIG MOVE TO FLOWERS!!!

Why “Circa 1963”?
Apr 08, 2013

Each year we seek to make the Abele Awards an extra special event by theming it with something from the history/creative genius of Black life.  In the past, we’ve honed in on the Harlem Renaissance, contemporary Hip Hop, and The Wiz. This year we take  for our inspiration both the year of integration at Duke and the sound of Motown.

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