A. Black B. Black + Lesbian C. Black + Gay D. Black + Bisexual E. Black + Transgender If you had to choose one letter, which would you choose? Go ahead, pick your strife. But know that it wasn’t a fleeting decision for Blake Brockington, a powerful, 18-year-old Black trans activist from North Carolina who…
Hilton Als Visits Yale
As Hilton Als begins his master class on March 25, the classroom is hushed with expectation. Als is distinguished in the literary world for his memoirs, essays, and reviews, but as a queer black man in the literary world he often finds himself pigeonholed into discussions on race and sexuality. He sits before the classroom,…
Come Together: Yale Unites for Justice
Last Friday, Cross Campus reverberated with the cheers of hundreds of students mobilizing in a call for intersectional solidarity. Last Friday, a moving demonstration of student power and unification cemented a historical milestone for years to come. Last Friday, Unite Yale took place – a rally organized to affirm the tangible connections between the ongoing…
The Dead Shall be Raised
I am the American heartbreak – The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe – The great mistake That Jamestown made Long ago. –Langston Hughes “You think it’s the hurricane? I think a dead man trying to tell a tale.” Curtis T., a homeless man, was being interviewed by the New Haven Independent about an…
From the Classroom to the Cell: A Deep History of Immigration and Mass Incarceration
Last Friday, Ta-Nehisi Coates closed his remarks on the case for reparations by saying that slavery isn’t a bump in the road of US history—it is the road. Prof. Kelly Lytle Hernández opened her talk, “Caged Birds: The Birth of Mexican Imprisonment in the United States,” with a similar metaphor that cuts to the quick…