# Black Studies Department
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# Welcome
Welcome to Black Studies at Yale. The Black Studies Department examines, from numerous disciplinary perspectives, the experiences of people of African descent in Black Atlantic societies, including the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
[Learn More](https://afamstudies.yale.edu/node/153)
## From the Collection
- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., shown here with former Yale trustee the Rev. Gardiner M. Day, received an honorary LL.D degree at Yale’s 263rd commencement in 1964.
- Ella Fitzgerald in 1940, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, who documented much of the Harlem Renaissance.Credit...Carl Van Vechten © Van Vechten Trust
- Walter Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers
- Half length group portrait, family group of six; father, mother, four children
## News
### [Marlene L. Daut was awarded the 2025 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize.](https://afamstudies.yale.edu/news/marlene-l-daut-was-awarded-2025-haitian-studies-association-book-prize)
November 21, 2025
Professor Marlene L. Daut, has been awarded the 2025 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize for her monumental work, The First and Last King of Haiti.
The HSA award committee...
### [Matthew Jacobson, Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of Black Studies, has been awarded the 2025 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize.](https://afamstudies.yale.edu/news/matthew-jacobson-sterling-professor-american-studies-and-history-and-professor-black-studies)
November 20, 2025
Matthew Jacobson, Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of Black Studies, has been awarded the 2025 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize from the...
### [Yale’s Anderson honored for work on criminology](https://afamstudies.yale.edu/news/yales-anderson-honored-work-criminology)
October 30, 2025
The American Society of Criminology recognizes Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson for his pioneering ethnographic research on urban crime.
Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson has...
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