MLK at Yale in the News

Angela Davis Speaking
January 20, 2020
Ella Goldblum 11:48 pm, Jan 16, 2020 “People of African descent in the Americas have embodied the quest for freedom for five long centuries,” political activist Angela Davis...
Image of MLK Jr.
January 23, 2019
Marisa Peryer 1:31 am, Jan 23, 2019 To honor the legacy of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History held its 23rd annual...
Activist Bree Newsome delivers MLK address
January 26, 2018
Chloe Glass 1:00 am, Jan 26, 2018 Activist Bree Newsome described the civil rights struggle led by Dr. Martin Luther King as “the very same crisis we find ourselves...
Mimage of Peabody celebration of MLK Jr day
January 17, 2018
Amy Xiong 12:03 am, Jan 17, 2018 A total of more than 2,300 people gathered at the Peabody Museum on Sunday and Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s efforts to work...
Image of MLK Jr. event
January 16, 2018
Chloe Glass & Isabel Bysiewicz 12:02 am, Jan 16, 2018 Fifty years after civil rights leader and activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Yale and the...
Diane Nash
January 27, 2017
By Blake Thorkelson   Principles of nonviolence from the 1960s are the best strategy for today’s social movements, civil rights icon Diane Nash told a Battell Chapel...
Diane Nash
January 25, 2017
By Mary O’Leary NEW HAVEN >> Civil rights icon Diane Nash advised her mostly young student audience at Yale’s Battell Chapel Wednesday to adopt Mahatma Gandhi’s use of...