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Caroline Pryor is a senior in Yale College, majoring in history with a focus on race and empire in the Atlantic and Caribbean.
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Kodwo Eshun is a writer, theorist, and filmmaker. His research interests include contemporary art and critical theory with particular reference to postwar liberation movements, modern and contemporary musicality, cybernetic theory, the cinematic soundtrack and archaeologies of futurity.
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Eshun will speak about his ongoing research in relation to Richard Wright and the Gold Coast, including work with materials in the Richard Wright Papers in the Beinecke Library.

Anthony Obayomi is a storyteller from Lagos, Nigeria who uses photography, filmmaking, and other storytelling techniques that combine art and technology in both traditional and experimental media. Obayomi’s documentary work is aimed at offering alternative perspectives to diverse audiences. He portrays people, society, and culture with the aim of fostering tolerance, mitigating stereotypes, questioning traditional opinions, and addressing issues of social justice. Obayomi earned a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the University of Lagos.

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In honor of Black History Month, the MBA for Executives and SOM Community & Inclusion are hosting a virtual panel discussion with SOM alumni Lofton Holder ‘90, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Pine Street Alternative Asset Management and Jamila Abston ‘17, Partner at Ernst & Young LLP.

One of Three Conversations on Contemporary Biography: Writing about Writers, co-sponsored by the Beinecke Library and Public Humanities at Yale.
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One of Three Conversations on Contemporary Biography: Writing about Writers, co-sponsored by the Beinecke Library and Public Humanities at Yale.
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The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture is co-sponsored by the Beinecke Library and the Department of African American Studies at Yale.
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Celebrate Black Trans lives by spending an evening sharing stories around the theme/question “What does community look like for you?” with other Black trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming community members.

We are also collecting “stories” by Black Trans folks for Black Trans folks in various formats–poetry, prose, photography, vision boards, to-do lists, thank you notes, whatever–to be shared in a newsletter after the event. Feel free to submit here: https://forms.gle/QKiSKQUjyG9xXzAC9 (link is external).

How do you celebrate and advocate for Black Trans Lives?

Join other Black cisgender and non-Black folks of all genders to share and share in strategies and resources for self-education and effective informed advocacy in support of Black Trans lives, rights and community, facilitated by Office of LGBTQ Resources Associate Director Andrew Dowe.

Free and open to the public. All are invited and encouraged to attend, regardless of knowledge level and previous experience with advocacy.

Ben Glaser is an assistant professor of English at Yale University. He is the coeditor of Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form.
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His book, “Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the “breaking” of meter and rise of free verse.