Yesterday, more than 70 students, faculty and community members gathered on Zoom for the African American department’s colloquium series.
Every year, Yale’s AFAM department...
“Are you OK?”
It was an ominous way to wake up: a ping from a text 15 minutes before my morning alarm would have buzzed. The message was from a friend—not a close one,...
Mr. SOUL!:
From 1968 to 1973, the public television variety show SOUL!, guided by the enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising...
Myth of a Colorblind France:
Myth of a Colorblind France examines the ways that racism has plagued not only African Americans fleeing the United States, but Africans and...
This wide-ranging and diverse shortlist demonstrates the power of non-fiction, and of the humanities and social sciences, to examine the critical issues of our time through a...
You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Zoom is Yale’s audio and visual conferencing platform.
Topic: African American Studies Information Session
Time: Aug 14, 2020 12:...
“Music is my refuge.”
This is how Maya Angelou opens her third memoir, “Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas,” from 1976. When she was piecing together a...
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Thomas Allen Harris’ debut film VINTAGE: FAMILIES OF VALUE, Third World Newsreel and Family Pictures USA present “Black Families Through...
