In "Sisters!" A Look Into The Past Informs The Present

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Institute Library Lucy Gellman | March 28th, 2025

Glass as a Medium of Resistance In “All At Once”

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  NXTHVN  |  Visual Arts Jacquelyn Gleisner | March 27th, 2025

Commemorating Abolition, PRU Honors Its Afro-Boricua Roots

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Boricua pride  |  Culture & Community  |  Downtown  |  Puerto Ricans United, Inc. Lucy Gellman | March 25th, 2025

Carlos Cruz, who is a member of the bomba collective Proyecto Cimarrón. Lucy Gellman Photos.

Anansi Meets Jazz As Quartet Spins A Musical Web

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Education & Youth  |  Jazz  |  Music  |  New Haven Symphony Orchestra Lucy Gellman | March 21st, 2025

Tyler Goldchain: "So much of this was staking ourselves in improvisation." Lucy Gellman Photos.

ECA Students Summon Black Joy

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Education & Youth  |  Educational Center for the Arts Lucy Gellman | March 19th, 2025

Crowning Four Champions, "The Word" Weaves Poetry Into Power

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Neighborhood Music School  |  Poetry & Spoken Word  |  The Word Abiba Biao | March 18th, 2025

In Dixwell, Wise Wiki Editors Add To Black History

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  New Haven Free Public Library Lucy Gellman | March 17th, 2025

Laurel Coleman, who wants to create a Wikipedia entry for her mom, Dorothy Coleman. Lucy Gellman Photos.

200 Years Later, A Reckoning With Slavery In New Haven

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  New Haven Green  |  News From The Pews  |  trinity church on the green Lucy Gellman | March 10th, 2025

“Spoken Word Magic” Brings Poetry, Power, & Ancestral Connection To NXTHVN

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Black History Month  |  Culture & Community  |  Dixwell  |  NXTHVN  |  Storytelling Aster Rhys | February 26th, 2025

From left: Jeremiah Craggett as Jeremiah Black, Jonah Craggett as Johan Black, Brandon Hutchinson as Alfira, and Gail Staggers as the narrator performing the first episode of the audiodrama “Haus of Black” at NXTHVN. Aster Rhys Photos.