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March 30, 2023
Dr. Elijah Anderson, Yale’s Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies and winner of the 2021 Stockholm Prize for Criminology, was recently interviewed...
March 28, 2023
Crystal Feimster stood alongside her family as she spoke to the Pierson community for the first time on Tuesday night as their next Head of College. read more
February 3, 2023
Atlanta Journal Constitution honoring the late colleague historian John Blassingame with Gerald D. Jaynes, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics, and African American...
January 30, 2023
The 2023 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Annual Lecture is once again upon us! The Gates Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Professor, Department of Psychology...
January 27, 2023
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Phillip Goff of the Center for Policing Equity about how the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis speaks to larger issues with police...
January 26, 2023
After record-breaking interest in certain classes during course registration, AFAM 170, PSYC 141 and ECON 116 are the highest-enrolled courses of the spring semester, with...
January 21, 2023
“They’re trying to George Floyd me,” Keenan Anderson said as Los Angeles police pinned him to the ground on Jan. 3. While he was on the ground, they tased him six times over...
January 20, 2023
Six members of the Yale faculty — Katerina Clark, Jill Jarvis, Jessica Gabriel Peritz, Shane Vogel, Erica Edwards, and Juno Jill Richards — have been honored by the Modern...
December 14, 2022
Yale’s Daphne Brooks discusses her multi-award-winning book “Liner Notes for the Revolution” and the overlooked Black women musicians it documents. Music has been a part of...
December 12, 2022
There is a prevailing narrative about crime that positions bad people as the problem and toughness — in the form of police and prisons — as the solution. It’s emotionally...
December 6, 2022
Rethinking Race, the Colonial and the Postcolonial in Contemporary France Keynote: Elijah Anderson (Yale University) “Black in White Space”   More information December 13-15...