In his Huffington Post blog, Elijah Anderson discusses to what degree social attitudes toward race have changed in the nearly sixty year period marking the murder of two...
Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward, documenting a century of banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led anti-urban renewal mobilization, and...
In a radio interview, historian Crystal Feimster explains the role that laws of war played in providing a basis for poor white and black women to seek legal protections...
Eli Anderson has been awarded the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, “given for work in the intellectual traditions of the African-American scholars W.E.B. DuBois, Oliver Cromwell...
Alum William Casey King (‘10) explores how “ambition,” as expressed in Barack H. Obama’s presidency, may redefine traditional expressions of this character trait as...
Elizabeth Alexander talks about her role and experience being chosen as the poet for President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 in a q&a with The National...
Robert Stepto is the featured speaker at a special Shabbat service to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr., to be held at Congregation B’nai Jacob, 75 Rimmon Road, in...
In her CNN.com op-ed, Terri Francis commits herself to engage in the public discourse on gun violence and challenges the rest of us to do so as well (“Gun control: It’s...
Elizabeth Alexander and Joseph Roach discuss “The Art of Inauguration,” today, on @Yale Live, January 17, 2013, at 12 noon.
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David Blight is a featured historian in “The Abolitionists,” the acclaimed PBS/American Experience documentary, airing January 8, 15 and 22, 2013.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright (‘11), an African American Studies and WGSS major, is named a Rhodes scholar, among seven other Yale students awarded 2013 Rhodes Scholarships. The honors...
