African American Studies at Beinecke Library

Collections, events, and news from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. helped to change America, with poet Langston Hughes’ help (Sedona Red Rock News)

    January 13, 2024

  • Writing and Resistance: 2024 Black History Month Display

    January 8, 2024

  • A civil rights champion

    January 1, 2024

  • Poem: I look at the world (New York Times)

    November 30, 2023

  • Office Hours with… Nana Adusei-Poku

    November 13, 2023

  • Beinecke event highlights failed effort to make New Haven the site of America’s first HBCU (Yale Daily News)

    September 12, 2023

  • Beinecke Readings Examine Freedom From All Angles (New Haven Independentt)

    July 6, 2023