Hosted by the Connecticut Chapter of the Black Caucus American Library Association, join us for a conversation about Dr. King’s legacy and the role of Black librarians in fighting social injustice.
Live English captioning will be provided.
Storytelling
Experience the enduring power of storytelling by participating in this annual tradition of honoring Dr. King through stories and song. Learn about and engage with his legacy through fables and a captivating program the whole family can enjoy. Featuring Clifton Graves (Chicken and the Eagle, The Creation), Joy Donaldson (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Word), and Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins. Dr. Robbie Thomas will also join us for a reading of her children’s book “Mommy, Why Am I Different?”
Curious about the winter birds you see outside your window? Join Museum staff from our Vertebrate Zoology Division and Education Department to learn about the native bird species you can find in your backyard this
season. Three of our experts will take you on a guided, behind-the-scenes tour through one of the country’s richest bird collections.
Live English captioning will be provided.
Join the visionary and founding members of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy of Social and Environmental Justice as they welcome the community to this year’s virtual festival and offer a brief history of the event.
Following their introduction, we’ll host a roundtable discussion focused on the arts in movement building and organizing for climate justice and racial equity.
Live English captioning will be provided.
The Yale Peabody Museum’s annual MLK celebration has been reimagined and transformed into a digital festival experience. This year the Peabody is hosting a series of free, online programs with opportunities to engage in critical dialogue and enjoy storytelling, music, dance, and spoken word performances.
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Please join the Yale Alumni Association and Belonging at Yale on Wednesday, December 2 at from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. for a discussion with Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author, historian, and speaker. Dr. Kendi and Yale professor Matthew Frye Jacobson will discuss Dr. Kendi’s bestselling book “How To Be An Antiracist” and his thoughts about reorienting America on the urgent issues of race, justice, and equality.
STEP 1 OF 3: Watch the HBO premiere of Between the World and Me on HBO or HBO MAX | November 21, 8 pm
STEP 2 OF 3: View a panel discussion around Between the World and Me on HBO or HBO MAX | Date & Time TBA
STEP 3 OF 3: Listen to HBO’s Between the World and Me Podcast available online | November 23-December 14
Note: Yale students and staff may access HBO at no cost through XFINITY On Campus.
The Office of International Students & Scholars is excited to collaborate with the Native American Cultural Center and the Association of Native Americans at Yale for our third Understanding America event of the fall semester.
At a moment of transnational racial reckoning, this listening session explores black frequency as a site of possibility. It engages black frequency in multiple forms: as a sonic space that ranges from silence to deafening, dissonant noise; as a register of ecstatic rapture and spirituality; as a temporal feedback loop of memory, repetition, and renewal; as a dynamic relation of call and response, or chorus and verse; as a haptic and kinetic space of contact and connection across the African continent and its various diasporas.
