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September 11, 2023
For author Margo Hendricks, Romance was a way to explore the very real history of class, race and power in Elizabethan England. For Tara L. Roi, it was a place where she...
September 5, 2023
At the end of a gangplank in Vineyard Haven Harbor bobs the Lagoon Pond Floating Gallery, a blue box haven for environmental artistic expression. On Friday, the gallery...
July 4, 2023
Military bases across the country have already received new names, in light of ongoing changes to remove Confederate references to federal property. They aren’t among the...
June 7, 2023
Demystifying the effects of systemic injustice: Gerald Jaynes on using mixed methods to study race-based economic inequality EGC Voices in Development, Episode 7 • Transcript...
May 22, 2023
Best Wishes for a Bright Future!! From the Department of African American Studies..
May 4, 2023
On April 15, 2023 Braxton D. Shelley, Associate Professor of Music, of Sacred Music, and of Divinity and ISM’s Interdisciplinary Program in Music and Black Church hosted a...
April 20, 2023
Nine members of the Yale faculty who have made important contributions across a range of fields, including economics, medicine, African American studies, and linguistics, are...
April 20, 2023
Yale’s Elizabeth Hinton: ‘Sentencing is the key mechanism driving the alarming racial inequities that we have in the U.S. criminal justice system’   Read article
April 10, 2023
Elizabeth Alexander ’84, a decorated poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and cultural advocate who was a professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and English...
April 5, 2023
Carolyn Roberts, Assistant Professor, History of Science & History of Medicine; African American Studies at Yale University  awarded the DeVane Medal. The DeVane Medal is...
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...