MLK at Yale in the News

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Yale, New Haven celebrate legacy of MLK

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...
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Diane Nash urges today’s activists to apply techniques of the Civil Rights Movement

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...
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Civil rights icon Diane Nash talks nonviolent action, continuing struggle, in New Haven event

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...
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Yale to honor life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

January 11, 2017
By Blake Thorkelson     Yale University and organizations in the greater New Haven area are preparing for events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 16, the national...
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NAACP president visits campus to honor MLK

January 21, 2016
Eliza Fawcett 1:13 am, Jan 21, 2016 Standing at the same pulpit where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in 1962, Rev. Cornell William Brooks LAW ’90, the president and CEO of the...
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Harp urges city to carry on MLK’s legacy

January 19, 2016
Lionel Jin 12:26 am, Jan 19, 2016 Speaking at the Yale Peabody Museum Sunday afternoon as part of a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., Mayor Toni Harp put the spotlight...