Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. In the early 1890s, Dvořák, then the...
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...