CELEBRATING BLACK COMMUNITIES
NATALIE KAINZ & ZAPORAH PRICE
‘Already a superstar’: Xavier Washington ’20+1 takes center stage singing at Yale and auditioning for American Idol

After an exciting music career at Yale, Xavier Washington ’21 has his sights set on the next big thing — American Idol. Washington is a senior […]

February 25, 2021

SEMILORE OLA
OLA: Just how much has the Black Renaissance actually revolutionized?

Today is a celebration. Of what, you might ask? Of our sweet escape from the white gaze! Everywhere I go, I see cries of the […]

February 25, 2021

THE YALE DAILY NEWS & NATALIE KAINZ
YTV Profiles: Yale’s Xavier Washington on auditioning for American Idol

Xavier Washington ’20+1 is a senior at Yale. After an exciting music career at Yale — where he performed at Spring Fling and toured the […]

February 25, 2021

TIFFANY PEDERSEN-HENRY
Artist Spotlight: Tiffany Pedersen-Henry ’23

February 25, 2021

DUREL CROSBY SANKOFA
21 Inna Babylon

I wrote this a few years ago after a kind of “coming of age” moment I never expected. Black History Month celebrates a number of […]

February 25, 2021

KADIATOU KEITA
Great Value Punk

It was hard growing up punk on a budget. Punk then emo because my middle school pubescent rage turned into awkward angst once I started […]

February 25, 2021

EC MINGO
MINGO: Beyond the binary of settler-colonialism

“We all have to recognize our privilege in perpetuating the settler-colonial state of the U.S. We are all either settlers or indigenous.” As an ethnicity, […]

February 25, 2021

BEN DORMUS & PASTOR JOSH WILLIAMS
DORMUS & WILLIAMS: Non-violence is not nonviolence

Ben: Pastor Josh and I met at the precipice of violence. It was the night of Thursday, April 19, a time familiar to many of […]

February 25, 2021

CALEB DUNSON
DUNSON: Blackness and belonging

Just two years ago, I might’ve been killed by one of the University’s police officers, the same ones employed to protect me. Just three years […]

February 25, 2021

AWUOR ONGURU
ONGURU: Jerusalema

I first heard Jerusalema last March. I remember the precise date, because it was the day my high school told us we weren’t going back […]

February 25, 2021

ADERONKE ADEJARE
ADEJARE: My name isn’t hard

I have been thinking about names lately, and the power they possess in realizing a person’s humanity. A pinnacle chant at Black Lives Matter protests […]

February 25, 2021