For the second consecutive year, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Planning Committee organized in-person programming throughout January, including a speaker event with Ruby Bridges.
As a prelude to the release of the book based on the work of the Yale and Slavery Research Project, this panel discussion focuses on how elite universities, their founders, and faculty over time, have used, benefitted from, and understood the story of enslavement in North America. It also examines how successive generations of historians have written and re-written the story
On Oct. 26, 180 members and guests of the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance gathered at the Yale Club of New York City to connect with Yale students and alumni involved in social impact work.
In-person and zoom Introductions: David W. Blight (Director, Gilder Lehrman Center and Sterling Professor of History, Yale University) · Glenda Gilmore (Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University) · Crystal Feimster (Associate Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History and the Programs of American Studies and Women,