Community Day: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery Exhibition at NHM

A special community day will be held from 12 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, February 15, 2025, offering tours and conversation around the New Haven Museum’s exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery,” prior to its closing on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Presented by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Library, the exhibition highlights the essential role of enslaved and free Black people in New Haven and at Yale.

Visitors will be encouraged to tour the exhibition, with members of the exhibition team available for questions and conversation. Visitors may also join any of the related programs in the New Haven Museum auditorium:

1:00 p.m. – Welcome and remarks

Curators Michael Morand and Charles Warner and Designer David Jon Walker will offer brief reflections on the exhibition and its impact since it went on view to the public in February 2024 and share some thoughts about the ongoing work of engaging the history and legacy of New Haven, Yale, and slavery.

1:30 p.m. – Film screening: “What Could Have Been”

A special screening of the short documentary film about the proposal for America’s first HBCU in New Haven, Connecticut, 1831, followed by a Q&A and conversation with the production team.

3:00.p.m. – Ubuntu Storytellers: Sweeps and Scholars

More information: www.newhavenmuseum.org/50134-2/