Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Professor Elizabeth Alexander to discuss the black art aesthetic and whether hip hop is poetry. Professor Alexander is the...
Christopher Lebron, assistant professor of African American Studies and Philosophy at Yale, has won the American Political Science Association’s prestigious Best First...
Vogue Knights: Presented by Qween Beat is a short video that Will Glasspiegel (African American Studies/American Studies ‘18) directed in May 2014 for VICE in partnership...
A provocative assessment of the contemporary carceral state for American democracy, Arresting Citizenship argues that the broad reach of the criminal justice system has...
Artist and writer Maya Angelou, who first captivated readers with her candid autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), and sustained a vitally engaged audience...
Wendell Adjetey (History/African American Studies, 2018) has won Canada’s top academic distinction, the Trudeau Fellowship.
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King advisor Vincent G. Harding, a historian and lay minister who wrote what is said to be the Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s most controversial address, died Monday in a...
Yale President Peter Salovey announced on May 21, 2014, that Jonathan Holloway, has been been appointed dean of Yale College. Holloway is currently Chair and Professor,...
Crystal Feimster has been awarded the prestigious Yale Provost Teaching Prize for the 2013-2014 term. An important honor, the Provost Teaching Prize is given annually to...
Commencement Day 2014 was a picture perfect day for our beaming senior graduating students, Ph.D. recipients and even our faculty members: see all the names of our...
Sam Greenlee, a novelist and poet best known for a low-budget 1973 movie made from his novel “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” which envisioned a black power revolution led by...
