African American Studies at Beinecke Library

Collections, events, and news from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters.
  • New Haven, Yale, and Slavery: The Real Story (New Haven Independent)

    March 13, 2024

  • The ‘ubiquity of Black presence’: Alum curates exhibition about Yale, New Haven, and slavery

    March 8, 2024

  • Exhibit Shines Truth on the HBCU That Wasn’t

    February 21, 2024

  • Exhibit highlights slavery and resistance in Yale and New Haven (WSHU Public Radio)

    February 19, 2024

  • WWII Tuskegee Airman Enoch Woodhouse II ’52 returns to Yale

    February 1, 2024