Elizabeth Alexander knows better than most what it’s like to make art for an unusually public and historic event: The poet and Yale professor wrote the celebratory poem for President Obama’s first inauguration, delivering it before a vast audience at the...
Yale historian Beverly Gage will be an eyewitness to history when she provides live coverage of President Obama’s second inauguration for “PBS NewsHour” on Monday, Jan. 21.Beverly GageGage has often provided commentary on the evening program, and she is...
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, award-winning journalist/activist, author, and the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia, will be at Yale on Tuesday, Feb. 5, for a tea at Branford College. Her talk is titled “Social Justice, Equity and Public...
YaleWomen can draw a crowd — in April more than 400 alumnae attended the network’s first global conference, in Washington, with star appearances by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, Girl Scouts USA CEO Anna Maria Chavez ’90, and Yale...