Amistad Center’s Juneteenth Weekend Celebration Join the Amistad Center for a powerful Juneteenth weekend celebration, honoring freedom, culture, and community! Engage our latest installation, Yoruba World. The festivities kick off on Saturday, June 7, […]
On Our Bookshelves Two female Nobel Prize in Literature winners in the last five years have been associated with Yale University in New Haven: Louise Glück (2020) and Annie Ernaux (2022). Glück joined the Yale faculty, in […]
Winter Research Resources from ABGA The Ancient Burying Ground is the oldest surviving colonial site in downtown Hartford. During the winter months, cemetery enthusiasts, researchers, and historians can access an abundance of resources on the […]
Connecticut Explored Connecticut history, one good story after another. IN THIS ISSUE: The Power of Words Contents Volume 23/Number 2/Spring 2025 pg 9 Hog River Journal: The Power of Words By Kathy Hermes […]
By Stacey Close In 1971, Benjamin Foster Jr. received his undergraduate degree in sociology from Trinity College in Hartford. Though African American students had attended Trinity, Connecticut’s second oldest institution of higher education, before […]