By Treston Codrington When the organizers of Yale’s Religion and Film Series selected “Religion and Social Change” as this year’s theme last spring, co-organizer Dr. Briallen Hopper says, “we couldn’t have foreseen the way these movements for social change would come to Yale.” In fact, the series screened the documentary A Time for Burning the…
by Treston Codrington A bright smile, an open door, and a hot oven on Lilac Street breathe life back into Newhallville, New Haven. Minister Cynthia Johnson is cultivating “the next Julia Child” when she opens her home for baking sessions with neighborhood kids. The goal over these five years has been to restore the “creative…
by Treston Codrington At a time when students around the nation are confronting the negligence of their school administrators and calling for their resignation, Yale administrators like Timothy Dwight (TD) Head of College Mary Lui and Dean Sarah Mahurin have decided to take action. During last Saturday’s brunch, TD held an open forum for students to…
by Treston Codrington It would be foolish to say that right now, women of color are coming under attack. This has been their existence for centuries. Let us think back to the Africans who became playthings of the European kidnappers or the Native American women who enjoyed equality and even power in their clans but…