My name is Nazeer Bacchus, and I am a third-year Masters of Arts student here at YDS. I had the privilege of serving as a representative on the committee that commissioned...
Today, I have been asked to offer remarks concerning what the James W.C. Pennington oil portrait means to me. And while I had no idea who James Pennington was before...
The theme of the Fall 2018 issue of Reflections goes to the heart of a controversy convulsing the nation—the seismic changes around sexual ethics and power.
A year after the...
In the 1830s, James W.C. Pennington became the first African American to attend classes at Yale. He audited classes at the Divinity School despite not being allowed to...