We’re all aware or how our lives are different now due to COVID-19 and this year’s Greater New Haven Heart Walk celebration will be too. While the traditional event will not be held in person this year, we are just as excited because we want this to be the biggest Heart Walk you’ve seen yet. Together, we will reach more people, stay active, and raise critical funds to save lives, and we will do so in fun, new ways.
In honor of Black History Month, please join the Yale African American Affinity Group, Future Leaders of Yale, and Yale Latino Networking Group for a family friendly virtual Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba dance workshop that will be led by Movimiento Cultural Afro-Continental (MCAC), Inc.
Bomba is the oldest Puerto Rican dance and music style that is rooted in resistance and dates back to the days of slavery.
The Yale Peabody Museum’s annual MLK celebration has been reimagined and transformed into a digital festival experience. This year the Peabody is hosting a series of free, online programs with opportunities to engage in critical dialogue and enjoy storytelling, music, dance, and spoken word performances.
Curated in partnership with Colectivo Bámbula, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Junta for Progressive Action, Yale Latino Networking Group, and the Yale African American Affinity Group, this panel will bring together Latinx professionals across the diaspora working to challenge anti-Blackness in Latinx culture, highlighting the dynamic work of organizers, educators, artists, and freedom fighters.
Panelists will include:
Due to the uptick in cases and change to COVID restrictions we will not be hosting a “Drive-up” toy collection but online donations only. Please see the attached flyer to send out to your departments, contacts, and post on social media sites.
Thank you to all our partners Yale Police Department, Yale University, Yale Veterans Network, New Haven American Legion Post 210, WYBC 94.3, Cricket Wireless, and the US Marine Corps Reserves New Haven unit as we look forward to working with you to keep making this a success and in the years to come.
Women United Mayo School Supply Drive - Support Young Students and Their Families While Learning Remotely
Adapting our tradition of reading to students at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Childhood School (185 Goffe Street, New Haven, CT 06511), this year we will be inspiring students and educators virtually. Young learners need supplies to support their interactive, hands-on learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers use these specific materials during their live virtual class sessions. Children will be able to complete follow-up activities with your support!
This years drive thru event begins at at Lighthouse Point Park, 2 Lighthouse Point Ter, New Haven, CT at 10:30 a.m. on October 18th, and will end at 11:30 a.m. We encourage all teams, participants and survivors attending to decorate their car on the 18th of October and drive a symbolic pre-determined lap throughout the park. Pictures next to the start and finish line will be taken via event staff and posted to the events Facebook page. Exiting the vehicles will be prohibited. Join the Yale Affinity Group Team, and/or to help with our fundraising efforts.
Professor Sandra Rozo studies the electoral effects of the arrival of 1.3 million Venezuelan refugees in Colombia as a consequence of the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis. She exploits the fact that forced migrants disproportionately locate in places with earlier settlements of Venezuelans after the intensification of the crisis. She finds that larger migration shocks increase voters’ turnout and shift votes from left- to right-wing political ideologies.
