Celebrating Black Communities Archives

SIMI OLURIN, AWUOR ONGURU, CALEB DUNSON & MARIE SANFORD

Are there black people in Harry Potter? Where were the black people in Gilmore Girls? Four are currently (or formerly) editors at the Yale Daily […]

February 18, 2022

MEGAN VAZ

Memories of May Day: A look back at Black Panther protests at Yale

On May 1, 1970, also known as “May Day,” thousands of protestors from around the country joined Yalies and New Haveners on the New Haven […]

February 18, 2022

MICHAEL NDUBISI

In the shadow of Bouchet: an interview with Ferentz Lafargue

On the tall walls of Saybrook College’s dining hall hangs the portrait of Edward A. Bouchet, class of 1874. The portrait, first displayed to the […]

February 18, 2022

SEMILORE OLA

OLA: Young, gifted and Black: America’s obsession with the Black prodigy

It is so easy to feel empty and directionless in a predominantly white institution without examples of Black excellence in front of me. I used […]

February 18, 2022

SYDNEY MCCORD

To those who have been kind

I am a lot of things. I am both a daughter and a sister, a roommate, a teammate, a friend, an athlete, a student and […]

February 18, 2022

ABIBA BIAO

BIAO: I Hate Black History Month

Hearing that was enough for the whole class to turn their heads towards our sixth grade history teacher. It was such a baffling statement for […]

February 18, 2022

TILLY BROOKS

BROOKS: Classica Delenda Est

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never […]

February 18, 2022

DANTE MOTLEY

Reginald Dwayne Betts shares stories from his “writing life”

Reginald Dwayne Betts, legal scholar, writer, and education and prison reform advocate, aims to build 1,000 libraries in prisons across the country. Now, he will […]

February 18, 2022

YEJI KIM

Advocacy to actuality: a history of the Afro-American Cultural Center

When organizations and schools nationwide celebrate Black History Month, they recognize the generations of African Americans who built a home for the Black community in […]

February 18, 2022

NOAH HUMPHREY

HUMPHREY: Give Pennington a degree

Rev. James Pennington, the first Black student at the Yale Divinity School, has not received a posthumous degree. My name is Noah Humphrey. I am […]

February 18, 2022

RUTH LEE

Death by 1,000 Cuts: A Requiem for Black and Brown Men

On Feb. 12, Quinnipiac University held a staged reading of “Death by a Thousand Cuts: A Requiem for Black and Brown Men.” The play is […]

February 18, 2022

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