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Despite enduring homelessness, Atlanta native Chelesa Fearce graduated as the valedictorian of her high school class. Now, she’s pursuing her PhD at Yale University.

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Inginia Genao, M.D.—a physician, author, and Yale University professor—is aiming to increase racial representation in the medical field.

Lolade Siyonbola spoke out this morning.

The head of Yale's Pierson College comes under fire for apparently backtracking on a plan to remove portraits of his White predecessors.

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Yale University announced that John C. Calhoun College will be renamed after computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper.

Erika Christakis asked if there was "no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious.”

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is taking his powerful message to the Ivy League this fall. Yale Divinity School announced this weekend that he will participate in their leadership program, serving as one of three lecturers as part of a $120,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, according to a press release. The activist, who has […]

Charles M. Blow (pictured), a respected New York Times columnist posted a series of distressed tweets to his over 123, ooo Twitter followers on Saturday, explaining that his son, Tahj Blow, a junior at Yale, informed him about a school police officer who mistook him for a burglary suspect and drew a gun on him as he exited his school’s library. Tahj, a third […]