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...
Crystal Feimster was a panelist at the NYC screening of “The Central Park Five,” withdocumentary filmmakers Sarah Burns and David McMahon, on Thursday, November
15, 2012. (...
Crystal Feimster will deliver the Southern Association for Women Historians’ annual address. “Indecent and Obscene”: White Officers, Black Women, and Rape in the “Contraband...
Marcus Hunter’s letter to the editor of the New York Times (“Republican attitudes toward urban America,” The Opinion Pages, Oct. 17), responds to a statement about the...
AFAM faculty David Blight and Elizabeth Alexander talked about the impact of racial politics on the 2012 presidential election with members of the Yale College Democrats at...
