by Eleanor Pritchett (Arts & Culture Editor) I had trouble finding a seat at the Whitney Humanities Center’s screening of The Price of the Ticket (1989) on Thursday, the room was so comfortably full. Yale students, professors, and New Haveners alike filled the WHC auditorium for the screening of the dynamic biographical documentary about author and…
by Haylee Kushi (Staff Writer) Disney is marching out a new kind of heroine for its next princess movie – a young woman with no romantic interest, a thicker body frame, and fierce pride in her cultural heritage. In the trailer for Moana released on September 15th, Disney promises to celebrate Pacific Islander cultures. Yet despite the…
by Kodi Alvord (Diné) “We are the tribe that they cannot see.” These powerful words from American Indian Movement activist John Trudell open A Tribe Called Red’s (ATCR) newest album, “We Are the Halluci Nation,” a musical manifesto of Native resistance expressed through pan-Indigenous collaboration and solidarity. The album reads as one flowing narrative of genocide,…
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon (Editor-in-Chief) This Friday, September 23rd from 2-5pm, Yale’s newly-created Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) will hold its inaugural Summer Student Research Symposium in Luce Hall. The symposium – the first of its kind since student advocates for comprehensive ethnic studies brought about the Center’s creation last year – takes place amid a…
by student affiliates of the Schell Center Lowenstein Clinic, Yale Law School Human Rights Record of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda to Be Subject of Yale Teach-In Tuesday, September 20, at 3 p.m., outside Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall On Tuesday, September 20, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, will deliver the Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture at Yale. Yale characterizes President Kagame…