An Academy Special: Black History Month

The Walter Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers, described as “the most extraordinary private collection of Douglass manuscript material in the world” by David Blight, Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies at Yale. The Beinecke Library presents this discussion about processing and digitization of this major new collection.

Professor Daphne A. Brooks discusses her highly lauded new book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound with Professor Matt Jacobson as part of the "Democracy in America" series @ the Virtual New Haven Free Public Library. Tuesday, February 23rd at 7:00pm. With an innovative perspective on the story of Black women in popular music—and who should rightly tell it—Liner Notes for the Revolution pioneers a long overdue recognition and celebration of Black woman musicians as radical intellectuals.

Yale Alumni College co-sponsors this conversation with the daughters of artists and activists who were on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement: Harry and Julie Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Bill Lynch, Al Sharpton, Malcolm X and the granddaughter of Percy Sutton, moderated by Yale Associate Professor of African American Studies, History and American Studies Crystal Feimster. Thursday, February 25th at 4:00pm Eastern.