Evelyn Ronan

When Bassett attended Yale in the early 80s, The David Geffen School of Drama ,was primarily producing work by prolific white American and European playwrights like Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov. Vance says there were few opportunities for Black actors and even fewer stagings of work by Black writers.

The city’s Board of Alders Education Committee held a public meeting Tuesday, which had a near five-hour runtime. School employees, parents and faculty packed the pews of City Hall brandishing photos of broken, mold or dilapidated equipment in their classrooms.

Kosta Diamantis, Connecticut’s former deputy budget director and director of school construction funding who's now a fugitive in Greece, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Bridgeport.

New Haven Board of Alders chides Yale; cautions university not to settle with the Department of Justice following its probe into Yale’s admissions policy.