General Public

Yale’s Affinity Groups, New Haven Fire Department, New Haven Police Department, and Yale New Haven Health are partnering to collect toiletries and cosmetics for mothers at New Reach, the Kinship Program, and Christian Community Action Agency. Items are being collected from Monday, March 15 through Monday, May 3, 2021.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions we are unable to accept in person donations. Please order items from our wish list on the link below, and have them delivered directly to: New Haven Fire Department, Attention: Lt. Meade, 105 Fountain St., New Haven, CT 06515.

Beinecke Library Director Edwin C. Schroeder will discuss the life, papers, and library of William Pickens (1881-1954, Yale 1904), American educator, essayist, and orator. Pickens was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa upon graduation from Yale and then received a master’s degree from Fisk University in 1908 and a Doctor of Letters from Selma University in 1915. Pickens was a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and he wrote extensively on racial issues.

Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL! Join the Afro-American Cultural Center and YSC for a screening of the award-winning documentary followed by a discussion with writer/director and former New Haven resident Melissa Haizlip and Yale Professors Thomas Allen Harris and Daphne A. Brooks. The topic will be “Making the Archive Public: Radical History in Public Television.”

We’re all aware or how our lives are different now due to COVID-19 and this year’s Greater New Haven Heart Walk celebration will be too. While the traditional event will not be held in person this year, we are just as excited because we want this to be the biggest Heart Walk you’ve seen yet. Together, we will reach more people, stay active, and raise critical funds to save lives, and we will do so in fun, new ways.

The Beinecke Library stewards a set of 22 pencil drawings of the Amistad captives as they awaited trial in New Haven, 1839-40. The sketches were done by William H. Townsend, a New Havener who was about 18 years old when he made the drawings. George Miles of the Beinecke Library will discuss the drawings. and Joy Burns, a member of the contemporary Amistad Committee, will discuss the resonance of this event in history for New Haven and the nation today and share efforts to commemorate the Amistad now and for the future.

Join us online for a free Indie Lens Pop-Up screening of the documentary CODED BIAS, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Shalini Kantayya and computer scientist Joy Buolamwini of the MIT Media Lab.

In celebration of Black History Month, the Yale Women’s Athletic Network and Yale Bulldogs for Change have partnered to host a guest panel highlighting Black Yale athletics alumni. The discussion will include their Black student-athlete experience at Yale, authentic allyship, navigating their careers, supporting Black women, leadership, and their motivation for social justice and community building.
Featuring:
Patricia Melton ’83 (Women’s Track & Field)
Francine Chew ’00 (Women’s Crew)
Stephany Reaves-Couper ’10 (Women’s Track & Field)

Join us for this virtual discussion with Margo Okazawa-Rey—educator, writer, and social justice activist—who will be discussing the importance of and steps to building feminist solidarities to resist gendered, racialized, classed violence, militarism, and conflict in the U.S. and across the world. A founding member of the Combahee River Collective and well known for her transnational feminist advocacy, Prof.

Join Yale’s eight affinity groups for a community-building panel discussion with representatives from Yale and New Haven law enforcement leaders.

Yale Alumni College invites you to meet the Daughters of the Movement, seven women whose parents changed the course of U.S. Civil Rights history: the daughters of Harry and Julie Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Bill Lynch, Al Sharpton, Malcolm X and the granddaughter of Percy Sutton. They will be joined by Yale Associate Professor of African American Studies, History and American Studies, Crystal Feimster for a conversation about advocating for social justice through activism and the arts. Tickets are free for Yale students, faculty and staff.