A music performance by poet-musician Cornelius Eady and musicians Charlie Rauh and Lisa Liu. Hosted in conjunction with the undergraduate class Approaches to Contemporary Biography at Beinecke Library and co-sponsored by Public Humanities at Yale, and the Department of African American Studies.
Based on Cornelius Eady’s poem cycle, Brutal Imagination is a powerful examination of the notorious 1994 incident in which a white woman in South Carolina, Susan Smith, claimed that a Black man had kidnapped her children. The FBI searched for the man until Smith confessed that she had invented the Black man and had drowned her children. Brutal Imagination, two voices inside one consciousness, brings this invented man to life.
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A talk in conjunction with new exhibition at the New Haven Museum, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery,” curated by Michael J. Morand with Charles E. Warner, Jr., and designed by David Jon Walker. The exhibition will be on view at the museum, 114 Whitney Avenue, from February 16. It is presented by Beinecke Library, Yale University Library.
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, racism and discrimination meant that few occupations were open to Black people in New Haven and elsewhere in Connecticut. Although a small number of formally educated Black men became doctors, lawyers, educators, and other professionals, the majority worked as barbers, porters, waiters, and laborers. Black women worked outside the home as well, often as cooks, laundresses, seamstresses, or household staff.
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A behind the scenes look at the design thinking for a new exhibition at the New Haven Museum, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery,” curated by Michael J. Morand with Charles E. Warner, Jr., and designed by David Jon Walker. The exhibition will be on view at the museum, 114 Whitney Avenue, from February 16. It is presented by Beinecke Library, Yale University Library.
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.
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:
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:
University Chaplain Maytal Saltiel in conversation with poet Ross Gay, followed by a reading of his work.
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
