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...
“G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,” a 2022 biography of the controversial FBI director by Yale historian Beverly Gage, is among three books to win this year’s Bancroft Prize, one of the nation’s top honors in the field of...
When she’s not performing contemporary classical works or teaching music to students, you might find violinist Maiani da Silva reading books about human behavior or listening to Motown giants like Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, and The Supremes. The...
Diego Lopez ’24 and Abnner Olivares ’24 have a lot in common. Both are the first in their Latinx families to attend college. Both hail from Los Angeles and both share a deep interest in public service, addressing inequality, and seeing the world to learn...
When Tina Lu, head of Pauli Murray College, first commissioned an artistic work to commemorate the residential college’s namesake, she had three requirements: She wanted something “monumental,” “enduring,” and “challenging.”
This week, at an unveiling of...