“Racism created race,” Coates said. His words echoed soundly in the SSS lecture hall, contributing to a wider discussion about race in America that continues to gain momentum on Yale’s campus and beyond. On Friday March 27th the Black Student Alliance at Yale, the Yale College Dean’s Office, the Office of the President, and the…
On March 31, Cherokee playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, in collaboration with Yale Native students and faculty, will host a staged reading of Sliver of a Full Moon. The play documents the grassroots movement that led to the 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which included a new provision that allows tribes to…
As a Black woman with curves – and proud of it, I might add – the world of high fashion invited me to marvel at its fabulous revelry from afar, but I was not invited to the party…until now. As of Friday, March 13th, the record-breaking pop star and longtime fashion icon Rihanna has been…
July 1st, 2015 marks an event that many students of color at predominantly white institutions could imagine only in their wildest dreams: a black feminist scholar will become the president of Swarthmore College. Valerie Smith, who has served as Princeton University’s Dean of College for the past three years, was announced president-elect of the private…
“The impossible is the least that one can demand.” – James Baldwin I have never felt more intellectually and spiritually affirmed than I have at the Asian American Studies Conference last month – an unprecedented event in Yale history. Over the course of the conference, I had the pleasure of listening to academics and graduate…