Branches of the New Haven Free Public Library and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater New Haven, in collaboration with Yale University’s MLK planning committee/community volunteers, will host a “Ruby Bridges Storytime” citywide read for young students and families at various locations throughout January (January 9 - January 23). Below you’ll find the list of participating locations, dates, times, addresses and contact information. (NOTE: In the case of inclement weather, please directly contact the location before traveling to the event.)

Locations:

Please join the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy for a panel discussing hot topics in organ donation.

Speakers will include:

Alexandra Glazier, President & Chief Executive Officer, New England Donor Services (NEDS)
Dr. David Mulligan, Professor of Surgery (Transplant), Yale School of Medicine
LaVarne Burton, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Kidney Fund (AKF)
Renee Landers, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Health and Biomedical Law Concentration and Master of Science in Law: Life Sciences program

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 | 5:30pm to 7:00pm (Doors open at 5:15 p.m.)

The Yale University and Greater New Haven communities are invited to attend this year’s MLK Commemoration that honors the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We are pleased to announce that the commemoration will feature Ruby Bridges.

Born in Jim Crow-era Birmingham, Alabama in 1950, Lonnie Holley was the seventh of 27 children—and at age four was taken from his mother and traded for a bottle of whiskey (Bloom). He fled abusive foster parents, was hit by a car (and declared brain dead) and was later sent to Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children—a “slave camp” by any other name (Missick). Holley’s work, born out of struggle, hardship—and more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity—manifests itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, filmmaking, and music.

One of the key methodological interventions of Digital Humanities is the capacity to map one’s research data. With the advent of interactive digital maps in the early 2000s, space-oriented humanistic historical research has seen a dramatic growth with multiple visualization tools during the past two decades. As Richard White of now defunct Spatial History emphatically notes in his 2010 working paper, spatial visualization, i.e. mapping, is not a mere illustration to a narrative but “a means of doing research.”