African American Studies at Beinecke Library

Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, September 15, 1941. Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; the permission of the Trust is required to reprint or use Van Vechten photographs in any way. To contact the Trust email: Van Vechten Trust.

Yale University's  Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Instructional Technology Group, have launched a web portal  designed to help researchers and Yale students find primary source material related to slavery and its legacies within the University's many libraries and galleries: Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal (http://slavery.yale.edu).

Sounds in the Silences: Jamaican Popular Music as a Response to the "Silence" of History By Garnette Cadogan, current Beinecke Visiting Fellow TOMORROW, May 7, 2010 at 1:30 pm Room 38, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street Free and open to the public

The Prison and the American Imagination by Caleb Smith Yale University Press, ISBN: 9780300141665

The Orpheus M. McAdoo and Mattie Allen McAdoo Papers (JWJ MSS 60 ) are now available for research. A description of the collection can be found online: Orpheus M. McAdoo and Mattie Allen McAdoo Papers JWJ MSS 60.

New Exhibition: Elements of Style: Fashion and Form at the Beinecke on view January 19 through March 27, 201. Exhibition Opening Event: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 4:00 pm "My Soul Finds Comfort in This False Hope" a talk by Maira Kalman. About the Exhibition

Boy of the Border: An unpublished children's book by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps Boy of the Border, a previously unpublished children's book co-authored by Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes, was published by Sweet Earth Flying Press in December 2009.