Upcoming Events
September 2024
February 16, 2024 to March 1, 2025 | |||
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Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale & Slavery | 12:00am |
Shining Light on Truth presents evidence of the essential role of enslaved and free Black people in New Haven and at Yale. It celebrates Black resistance and community building. |
September 9, 2024 | |||
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Mondays at Beinecke: Race and the Yale Report of 1828 with Lily Todorinova | 4:00pm to 5:00pm |
In this talk, scholar and librarian Lily Todorinova will draw on her recent essay in Higher Education Quarterly that recontextualizes the Yale Report of 1828, a declarative statement about the purpose of higher education, issued at a crucial time in the development of American colleges. |
September 10, 2024 | |||
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Screening of the Documentary Film What Could Have Been | 6:30pm to 8:30pm |
Center Church on the Green and Beinecke Library welcome all to a special screening of the documentary film “What Could Have Been” about the proposal for America’s first HBCU in New Haven in 1831 |
September 12, 2024 | |||
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Wear IT for ALZ | 11:00am to 2:00pm |
Save the date and join us to support the 2024 Walk to End Alzheimer’s by: |
September 16, 2024 | |||
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Mondays at Beinecke: New Haven Abolitionist, Custodian, and Business Owner John W. Creed with Hope McGrath | 4:00pm to 5:00pm |
Business owner, abolitionist, service worker, father, community leader: John William Creed embodies the many strands of New Haven Black history in the 19th century. |
September 19, 2024 | |||
| ISM Fellows Lunch Talk with Ahmad Greene-Hayes: Little Richard or Minister Richard W. Penniman? Black Religion, Sexuality, and Rock 'n' Soul | 12:00pm to 1:00pm |
Exploring the religious life of Richard Wayne Penniman (or Little Richard), the paradigmatic, loud, raucous, flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll preacher-musician, is a significant undertaking for a multitude of reasons. |
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September 23, 2024 | |||
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Mondays at Beinecke: Yale Law School Alumnus George W. Crawford with Charles E. Warner, Jr. | 4:00pm to 5:00pm |
George Williamson Crawford was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1877. He attended Tuskegee Institute and Talladega College and graduated from Yale Law School in 1903. He was appointed clerk of New Haven Probate Court in 1903. |
September 26, 2024 | |||
| YAAA Monthly Meeting | 12:00pm to 1:00pm |
Please join in our monthly YAAA Steering Committee Meetings. These meetings are an opportunity to hear about what has been happening with YAAA and what is in the works. |
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