“Grace Notes: Reflections for Now” defies easy explanation, which makes sense as defiance is part of its nature. Midway through “Grace Notes,” a group of young black men, members of the Yale chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, rhythmically step, clap,...
Citizens of the world must be as fierce in their passion to protect and preserve culture and cultural heritage as extremists are in their desire to destroy it, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told a packed audience at Yale on April 12.“Art, literature...
Of all the accolades she has received as the director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is especially proud of being awarded honorary citizenship of Timbuktu in Mali last summer in recognition of UNESCO’s support in rebuilding mausoleums there that had been...