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...
Ashley James (English/AFAM) and Tina Post (AMST/AFAM) have been named Beinecke Graduate Student Research Fellows for 2014-2015. The honor allows them to pursue their research...
Speaking with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Kathleen Cleaver (Sr. Lecturer, African American Studies) and Danny Glover discussed the legacy of the Black Panther Party and...
The 2014 Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize has been awarded to two degree recipients: Kristin Graves (Fren/AFAM) for her essay, “Mapping La Belle Creole,” and Anna Kesson (HSAR/AFAM...
David Joseph-Gotenier is the 2014 William Pickens Prize winner for outstanding senior essay in the field of African and African American Studies. The Pickens Prize carries a...
Congratulations to Shawnna Thomas (‘15), on the recent distinction of being named a 2014 Wallace Prize second place fiction winner for her short story, “Children with...
Nigerian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize recipient Wole Soyinka delivered the 2014 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Lecture on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at the Whitney Humanities...
