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...
There’s an intersection on the Yale campus that always fills senior Sarah Tang with delight.
It’s where College, Grove, and Prospect streets meet on Science Hill. She particularly loves the view of Sterling-Sheffield-Strathcona (SSS) Hall, a Neo-Gothic...
Hilary Hahn, a violin virtuoso and multi-Grammy winning artist, will visit the Yale campus twice this spring to work with student musicians and composers as an artist-in-residence at Timothy Dwight College.
During the short-term residency, Hahn hosted...
In the early, most isolating days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Alicia Schmidt Camacho, head of Ezra Stiles College, sent and received poetry from her students as a way of staying connected during a period of remote learning. She noticed that one poet whose...
Six members of the Yale faculty — Katerina Clark, Jill Jarvis, Jessica Gabriel Peritz, Shane Vogel, Erica Edwards, and Juno Jill Richards — have been honored by the Modern Language Association (MLA) for outstanding scholarly work in the field.
The six...
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...
Yale junior Shervin Dehmoubed, who started his first company selling children’s toys when he was just 15 and is now the cofounder and CEO of a sustainable packaging company called EcoPackables, is among the inventors, leaders, creatives, influencers, and...
For nearly a half-century, J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI or its precursor. A rabid anti-Communist now known for his own law-breaking — specifically, for his secret surveillance of American citizens — he is often caricatured as a bulldog.
But in...
