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
Elizabeth Alexander ’84, a decorated poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and cultural advocate who was a professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and English...
Carolyn Roberts, Assistant Professor, History of Science & History of Medicine; African American Studies at Yale University awarded the DeVane Medal.
The DeVane Medal is...
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...
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
Atlanta Journal Constitution honoring the late colleague historian John Blassingame with Gerald D. Jaynes, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics, and African American...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
