Yale has created a new scholarship program to support New Haven public school students who choose to attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
The Pennington Fellowship is established with Hampton University, Morehouse College, Morgan...
Music has been a part of Daphne Brooks’ life since she can remember. Her childhood home was filled with the sounds of all kinds of records, including Duke Ellington and Aretha Franklin. She even played a little bit of piano herself. But she says she never...
In October 2020, Yale President Peter Salovey announced a series of goals and objectives to promote a sense of belonging for all members of the university community. To meet those objectives, he created a series of university-wide initiatives that form...
Martin Luther King III, a global human rights activist and the elder son of the iconic civil rights leader, will deliver the keynote address during Yale’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration on Jan. 18.
All members of the Yale and Greater New...
Every January people across America and the world mark the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. with “profound gratitude” for his contributions. But until the beloved civil rights leader’s hopes for racial equality, economic prosperity, and nonviolence are...
The Yale and New Haven communities will commemorate the life and legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. during a series of campus events, including a keynote address by his eldest son, Martin Luther King III.
The campus celebrations, which...
In his research, Nicholas Jones explores questions related to Black diasporic identity in early modern Iberia and the Ibero-Atlantic world. Put another way, he says, his scholarship reveals a blueprint for past rebellion by Black Africans and their...