Nirule Salaam: Yale, Slavery, & New Haven Connecticut
Nirule Salaam: Yale, Slavery, & New Haven ConnecticutNirule Salaam is a New Haven community historian whose family has been in the city for generations. His book, Y.A.L.E: Black Power vs Biopower, traces Yale University's role in American racial governance from 1638 to today. He wrote it without institutional backing—no grants, no fellowships, no permission from any entity it names. This is not an apology tour. It's a prosecution. And it demands restitution, not acknowledgment.We talk about Neagar Anthony, the captive held in 1638 before Yale existed; Ezra Stiles, Yale's seventh president…
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