Tag: Emory University

Frans de Waal, Who Found the Origins of Morality in Apes, Dies at 75

Frans de Waal, who used his study of the inner lives of animals to build a powerful case that apes think, feel, strategize, pass down culture and act on moral sentiments — and that humans are not quite as special as many of us like to think — died on Thursday at his home in […]

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Racial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act, Study Finds

When the Supreme Court knocked down a core part of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. argued that some of the law’s protections against racial discrimination were no longer necessary. He wrote that the once-troubling turnout gap between white and Black voters in areas with histories of discrimination at […]

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Sprawl, Climate Change, Fading Memories Endanger Praise Houses of the South

The Rev. Kay Colleton will never forget the time she first laid eyes on Moving Star Hall, a tiny white clapboard building with a leaning chimney, a crooked roof and a storied history. The hall is a rare surviving example of a praise house — humble one-room structures used as places of worship by enslaved […]

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