Van Alst: Coddling White Privilege, Silencing People of Color

Emily Van Alst
11/2/15
Halloween 2015 is done. But we’re still in the middle of Ptaŋyétu (autumn), a favorite season for many, including myself...

Silence Equals Violence: Remember the Sand Creek Massacre

Stanley Heller
2/26/15

At the start of December I came late to a Ferguson protest being held in New Haven and started video recording. Happily I got a good chunk of the remarks of an American Indian student at Yale, Sebastian Medina-Tayac. It’s here entitled ...

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Invisible Man: Clarence Thomas, the Avatar of Hypocrisy on Civil Rights

Steve Russell
7/24/13

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is an avatar of hypocrisy in civil rights law. A descendant of slaves hailing from Pin Point, Georgia, his first language was Gullah....

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Shaking the Education Tree

Steve Russell
6/16/12

A senate candidate in Massachusetts has been accused of playing Indian to gain employment advantage and the Supreme Court has t...

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2011 Retrospective: March

ICTMN Staff
12/28/11
Appetite for Destruction The emerald ash borer beetle is extremely beautiful, and extraordinarily voracious...

Harold Bloom Questions Mitt Romney and Mormonism

ICTMN Staff
11/19/11
A recent article in the Salt Lake City, Utah’s Deseret News , draws attention to Yale professor Harold Bloom’s thoughts about presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the beliefs of ...

Growing Native American Student Base at Yale Prompts More Space

ICTMN Staff
11/17/11
The Native American Cultural Center at Yale University will not have to share a space with the Asian American Cultural Center come next fall when it moves to its own house...

Yale Returning Remains, Artifacts to Peru

Gale Courey Toensing
3/3/11
After a century of exile in the United States—and decades of wrangling—human remains from the famed citadel of Machu Picchu will be repatriated to Peru, along with thousands of art...