NYU’s Zoom book launch for Prof. Alexandra Vazquez’s The Florida Room.
The Florida Room compresses the wide, deep, and volatile politics and poetics of the global south—its...
Since the end of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, large numbers of Black people have made their way into settings previously occupied exclusively by whites....
There was never a question for photographer and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris that family, history, and photography were all tangled together, forming deep roots that...
Babette Thomas is a current podcaster in residence for SF MOMA’s Raw Material Podcast. This season is titled Visions of Black Futurity and centering it around the...
ATTENTION: the 2022 deadline for transfer applications has now been extended. All students who are interested in applying to transfer into the Combined Ph.D. program may...
Jacqueline Goldsby, who has opened new avenues for African American studies and the study of literature both at Yale and beyond, has been appointed the Thomas E. Donnelley...
Yale College Dean Marvin Chun will host a gathering in the spring of 2022, in person if public health conditions permit, to honor the recipients of this year’s annual Poorvu...
This past week, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was a sharp reminder of 2020’s summer of protest against police violence. After a police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last...
Psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff analyzes data on how racial bias affects police behavior. He shares how communities can rethink their public safety systems, and ultimately...
Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson has been awarded the 2021 Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his groundbreaking urban ethnographies documenting violence and life in inner-...
From Bessie Smith to Béyonce, Black feminine sound has significantly contributed to the foundation of American music. According to Daphne Brooks — an award-winning author and...
