Yale Environment 360

‘They were men of Yale’: Two Black scholars honored posthumously

Members of the Yale and New Haven communities gathered this week to confer degrees on the Rev. James W.C. Pennington and the Rev. Alexander Crummell, two Black men who studied theology at the ...
The Washington Post

After decades of waiting, D.C.’s Ivy City to get community center at Crummell School

After decades of demands from residents, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Thursday announced that her administration would spend $20 million to turn a long-vacant school in Northeast Washington into a ...
insider.si.edu

Creative conflict in African American thought : Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey / Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Preface : struggle, challenge, and history -- Introduction : reality and contradiction -- Frederick Douglass : superstar and public intellectual -- Where honor is due : Frederick Douglass and ...
Afro

St Luke’s Church Celebration of Alexander Crummell

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church is holding two events to honor its Founder Alexander Crummell through a symposium titled, “Alexander Crummell and African American Activism in Antebellum” Sept. 10 from ...
The Guardian

Alexander Crummell, Cambridge's first black graduate

Alexander Crummell is not a name that resonates in any list of black pioneers but his story as the son of a former slave who became almost certainly the first black student to graduate from Cambridge ...
BBC

Cambridge University's 'first' black student pioneer

The story of Cambridge University's first officially recorded black student is being told as part of the university's Festival of Ideas. Alexander Crummell was an American minister and the son of a ...