It was near dusk on a recent evening when 20 Yale student singers and five instrumentalists performed “Glimpse Elation,” a piece by composer Derrick Skye, for the final time in the inner courtyard of Pauli Murray College.
The group had been practicing the...
Janine di Giovanni was reporting from Iraq in the months before the U.S. invasion in 2003 when she traveled to the northern city of Mosul. There, she discovered an ancient community of Christians who prayed in Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
The people...
Yale’s biggest campus celebrity has a new place to hang out.
On Oct. 14, Yale’s live bulldog mascot, Handsome Dan, took occupancy of a custom doghouse in the courtyard of the Yale Visitor Center, where he passes much of each workday.
“Dan spends a lot of...
The loss of a language is a subject Royce K. Young Wolf knows firsthand. As a young girl, she experienced the impacts of colonial trauma and lateral violence passed on by generations of her family attending boarding schools. Over the years, these...
