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Traveling Black: Race and Resistance on the Road, the Rails, and the Skyways

Mia Bay, the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, in conversation with Matthew Jacobson, co-director of the Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale University. Professor Bay will address her new book, “Traveling Black: Race and Resistance on the Road, the Rails, and the Skyways.”

Envisioning Black Citizenship in Antebellum Louisiana

Join Crystal Feimster, Associate Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, History, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, in conversation with Matthew Jacobson, co-director of the Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale.
This program is presented as part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” series, a collaboration between the New Haven Free Public Library and Public Humanities at Yale.

Day With(out) Art 2021: Virtual Screening

Yale University is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by Katherine Cheairs, Cristóbal Guerra, Danny Kilbride, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad and Uriah Bussey, Beto Pérez, Steed Taylor, and J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project.

A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone

Daniel HoSang, Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies at Yale University, in conversation with Matthew Jacobson, co-director of the Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale. This program is presented as part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” series, a collaboration between the New Haven Free Public Library and Public Humanities at Yale.

From Factory Town to Hospital Town: Labor and Democracy in the Rustbelt

Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago, in conversation with Matthew Jacobson, co-director of the Public Humanities Program and the Sterling Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale University.
This program is presented as part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” series, a collaboration between the New Haven Free Public Library and Public Humanities at Yale.

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