Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. In the early 1890s, Dvořák, then the...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we catch up with a Yale scholar who was recently elected to a leadership role at the Modern Language Association; celebrate a major honor for The Yale Review; bask...
A new four-part Netflix docuseries, “African Queens: Njinga,” tells the story of the 17th-century warrior Queen Njinga, who ruled over the territories of Ndongo and Matamba in present-day Angola. Cécile Fromont, a professor in the history of art in Yale’s...
Jesús Valles, an educator, performer, poet, and playwright, has been named the winner of the 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world’s most prestigious awards for emerging playwrights, for their new play “Bathhouse.pptx.”
Valles’s play,...