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Newly preserved Kathleen Collins masterwork will screen on Nov. 11

November 9, 2022
The film will be followed by an in-person Q&A with actress Seret Scott, who starred in the 1982 film.
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Library celebrates Willie Ruff ’53 and the Conservatory without Walls

October 11, 2022
Oct. 14 library events launch a year-long celebration of jazz musician and filmmaker Willie Ruff and the Duke Ellington Fellowship’s 50-year anniversary
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New Book Talk launches with Debby Applegate's bio of a Jazz Age brothel owner

February 15, 2022
The first Yale Library Book Talk will feature historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Debby Applegate, author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age debut on March 2 at 4:30 pm. Online and open to all.
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Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective conference, Oct. 28-30

October 7, 2021
The 23rd annual conference of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition will present the in-process research findings of the Yale and Slavery Research Group. The online event is free and open to all.