by Haylee Kushi (Staff Writer, Native Hawaiian) In 1990, the United States federal government tacked Pacific Islanders onto its census designation “Asian American or Pacific Islander.” This semester, the Yale Native American Cultural Center (NACC) welcomes its first staff member of Pacific Islander heritage, Assistant Director Kapi’olani Laronal (Haida, Tsimpsian, and Native Hawaiian). This raises…
by Katie McCleary (Staff Columnist, Apsáalooke/Chippewa-Cree) The Yale Native community is composed of students from different Native nations across the Western Hemisphere. Although Yale Natives spend the summer apart, we continue to exchange indigenous knowledge via social media. Through mini-dialogues and hashtags, we learn about each other in our own words and pictures instead of through…
by Karen Marks (Staff Writer) On Thursday, September 1st, Vince Staples dropped the video for his second EP “Prima Donna,” which was released last week. Staples’s videos never lack artistic imagination, and Prima Donna is no exception. More short film than music video, Prima Donna doesn’t just feature one song from Staples’s new album –…
by Carlene Ervin On August 28th, Beyoncé slayed Lemonade Live—I mean, her VMAs performance. In 2014, when Beyoncé received the VMA’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard, she delivered a stunning 16-minute medley of her self-titled album Beyoncé. This year, she employed the same framework to deliver a stunning, on-stage performance of Lemonade distinct from her Formation…
by Ryan Wilson New Haven teenager Aymir Holland faces up to 61 years in prison for allegedly assaulting and robbing an elderly Yale professor, Charles Hill, in November of 2015. While Hill was unable to number or identify his attackers, one of the other two teenagers arrested for the assault reportedly told police that Aymir…