African American Studies at Yale

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Boy of the Border: An unpublished children's book by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps Boy of the Border, a previously unpublished children's book co-authored by Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes, was published by Sweet Earth Flying Press in December 2009.

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Natasha Trethewey, Poetry Reading Wednesday, November 18, 4:00 p.m. Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series Contact:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu Please join us for a reading by poet Natasha Trethewey on Wednesday, November 18, 4:00 p.m., at the Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street.

The finding aid for the Walter Francis White and Poppy Cannon Papers has recently been revised and updated; the new finding aid to the collection is available online: Walter Francis White and Poppy Cannon Papers.