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Duke Athletics hosted a virtual unity rally on Monday, January 18 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hosted by Troy Austin, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Internal Affairs, guest speakers for the event included President Vincent E. Price, Chandra Guinn from the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, C.G. Newsome, a triple Duke University alumnus and a former letterman as a member of the Blue Devil football team, Nolan Smith, the Director of Operations and Player Development for Duke Men’s Basketball, along with three current Duke student-athletes – Darcy Bourne from field hockey, DeWayne Carter on the football team and Felise Collins from the softball program.

As I say in the introduction to this episode, an article in The Lancet by Jane Davis makes the case that reading literature out loud has potential for healing and wellness. As a part of The Reader Organization, Davis says, "Our hypothesis is that reading literature aloud with others offers something uniquely valuable." She goes on to say, It "...facilitates the creation of a series of powerful interplays: between the written text and the aural experience; between hearing the text from outside and processing it within; between one's own experience and that of the author and characters; between the privacy of personal consciousness and the public experience of group...For by reading aloud in a group it may be that readers experience what we might call interpersonality both with the book, and its author and characters, and with other group members...To see oneself in others, to see others in oneself, this is the rich experience going on within the group and with the book ('Enjoying and Enduring: groups read aloud for wellbeing,' by Jane Davis, The Lancet Vol. 373, Issue 9665, February 28, 2009, pp. 714-715.). Jewish and Christian scripture have always ranked among the worlds greatest literature, and both Jews and Christians have known since the time each community was started that the reading aloud of their scripture was something important and profound in multiple ways, not the least of which was for healing and wellbeing. What I love about the art of Biblical Storytelling is that, as my guest, Dr. Kathy Culmer says, the telling of scripture adds something more that simply the reading of scripture. It enables, as The Lancet article claims, an interplay and interpersonality for people in which they identify with the characters, the story, and others listening to the story. They are enabled to live the story and see themselves in others and others in themselves. Of course it takes wonderful storytellers to enable such experiences to happen, and my guest is one such storyteller! If anyone can transport you into the story, it is Dr. Culmer! Dr. Kathy Hood Culmer is an author, storyteller, speaker and teacher and Christian educator. A graduate of Spelman College, the University of South Florida, and United Theological Seminary, Kathy holds a B.A. in English, an M.A. in English, and a D. Min. in Biblical Storytelling. She has taught on the secondary and college levels in a variety of subject areas ranging from English to Speech Communications, to Broadcast Journalism, to Religious Education. As a professional storyteller, she has been a teller and workshop presenter in churches, schools, libraries, at festivals, retreats, on college campuses, in business settings, and a variety of other venues. Kathy has performed at the Exchange Place at the National Storytelling Festival, Georgia State University, Duke University's Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, the Texas Storytelling Festival, and was the Featured Storyteller at the Network of Biblical Storytellers 2008 Festival Gathering. She was a part of a 2008 Biblical Storytelling Mission Trip to The Gambia in West Africa. Her life's work is to provide words of encouragement, truth, and inspiration to others through telling, writing, and speaking. She is the editor of a collection of personal narratives called Yes, Jesus Loves Me: 31 Love Stories and is also author of "Big Wheel Cookies: Two For A Penny," published in The Rolling Stone and Other Read Aloud Stories and "Feasts a Plenty," published in Holiday Stories All Year Round. You can learn more about Dr. Culmer here and from her website: kathyculmer.com.

For the first time on public television, Independent Lens presents The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, a dynamic film about the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party that has garnered reviews as divided as the organization itself. Find out why as host Deborah Holt Noel sits down with the film’s award-winning producer Laurens Grant on the campus of Winston-Salem State University.

For the first time on public television, Independent Lens presents The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, a dynamic film about the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party that has garnered reviews as divided as the organization itself. Find out why as host Deborah Holt Noel sits down with the film’s award-winning producer Laurens Grant on the campus of Winston-Salem State University.

Host Deborah Holt Noel interviews race and higher education scholar Dr. Shaun Harper, Founder of the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania live at the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture at Duke University. Harper shares insights on recent college campus protests and public school education and charter schools in North Carolina.

Host Deborah Holt Noel interviews race and higher education scholar Dr. Shaun Harper, Founder of the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania live at the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture at Duke University. Harper shares insights on recent college campus protests and public school education and charter schools in North Carolina.