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By James FitzGerald BBC News 22 April 2024, 16:25 BST Updated 18 minutes ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: Dozens of Gaza protesters arrested at Yale University Dozens of protesters have been arrested at Yale University as demonstrations against the war in Gaza rock US […]
A new study reveals a staggering disparity in life expectancy between Black Americans and their white counterparts between 1999 and 2020. In an analysis of U.S. data, a Yale-led team of researchers found 1.63 million excess deaths in the Black population compared with white Americans, representing more than 80 million excess years of potential life […]
Somesh Roy was about 10 years old when he discovered a history book depicting ancient cave paintings. The images captivated him. Inside his home in West Bengal, India, which lacked electricity, he used candlelight to gawk at the pages after dark. “I knew I was going to be a historian when I grew up,” Roy […]
Rose Prentice, formerly enslaved, was in her mid-sixties when Sarah Goodridge, a noted miniaturist, painted her portrait. Born in 1771, Prentice retained the surname of her second enslaver, John Prentice, who likely manumitted her, before or upon his death, in 1808. Decades after securing her freedom, Prentice moved to Boston’s Beacon Hill, where she performed […]
Four Yale alumni — the legal scholar Tendayi Achiume ’05, ’08 J.D.; incarceration law scholar Andrea Armstrong ’07 J.D.; democracy advocate Ian Bassin ’06 J.D.; and the scholar and writer Imani Perry ’94 — are among 20 recipients of 2023 MacArthur Fellowships, a prestigious award known informally as the “genius grant.” Awarded annually by the […]
Yale University must face a claim that it intentionally inflicted emotional distress when a supervisor expressed negative racial stereotypes to a Black contractor during their meeting. Contractor Todd Howell and his business, New England Snow & Ice Management LLC, entered into a contract with Yale to provide snow and ice removal services in 2019. After […]
Members of the Yale and New Haven communities gathered this week to confer degrees on the Rev. James W.C. Pennington and the Rev. Alexander Crummell, two Black men who studied theology at the university during the mid-19th century but were barred from formally registering as students or speaking in class due to the color of […]
How Istanbul changed his career—and his life Sedat Pakay, James Baldwin, Istanbul, 1966. Courtesy Hudson Film Works II The eleven-minute black and white documentary, James Baldwin: From Another Place, directed by Sedat Pakay and filmed in Istanbul in May 1970, opens with a shot of Baldwin lying supine in a large bed in a sparsely […]
Yale Divinity School will graduate 120 students at Commencement on May 22. Here are brief profiles of some of the graduates. When John Aden graduates from YDS this spring, a job is waiting for him in Kentucky at Citizens of Louisville Organized and United Together, where he’ll be the newest of three community organizers. The […]
Guadalís Del Carmen, Dave Harris, Rachel Lynett, and Sanaz Toossi. NEW HAVEN, CONN.: Yale Repertory Theatre has named four newly commissioned artists. With support from the Binger Center for New Theatre, Yale Rep will develop new works by