The Yale and New Haven communities this month will commemorate the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. during a series of events on campus and beyond, including a public conversation with American civil rights activist Ruby Bridges...
Urban settings are disproportionately affected by the consequences of climate change, but Yale’s Karen Seto believes that the world’s cities can also be a key part of the climate solution.
A New Haven-based collaboration developed by Seto, the Frederick C...
American civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who became a symbol of the movement when she integrated an all-white elementary school as a young girl in the early 1960s, spoke about the continued fight for educational justice during Yale’s annual...
By the time he was entering his senior year of high school in New Haven, in 2017, Henry Seyue already knew that he wanted to study law, preferably constitutional law. One of his teachers, recognizing his academic seriousness, recommended that he attend...
Yale faculty, students, staff, and alumni discuss the importance of studying Yale’s historical ties to slavery. Learn more at the Yale and Slavery Research Project website.
Formed in 2020, the Yale and Slavery Research Group was tasked by President Salovey with investigating Yale’s historic involvement and associations with slavery and its aftermaths. Here are the key actions the university has taken in response to the group...