With decades of experience at Yale University, professors Hazel Carby (African American Studies and American Studies), Gerald Jaynes (African American Studies and Economics) and Robert Stepto (African American Studies, American Studies, English) join host Nicholas Forster in this episode to discuss the history of African American Studies at Yale University. Originally known as Afro-American Studies, Yale's interdisciplinary program was established in 1969 following calls by student activists and the Black Student Alliance at Yale. While today's guests arrived sometime after the origin of this program Carby, Jaynes and Stepto describe both the challenges and the exciting developments over the last 40 years as the Afro-American Studies program eventually became the African American Studies Department.