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Segregation is Back in America’s Public Schools
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated the William Frantz Public School. In retaliation, white parents withdrew their children and Bridges’s father was fired from his job. Ruby completed the first grade alone. Ruby’s walk to school the first day, escorted by U.S. Marshals, inspired the 1964 Norman Rockwell painting “The Problem We All Live With.”
The Illuminated Walkway, a Sixth-Century Mystic and the Number Nine
Pythagoras, Greek mystic, mathematician and “father of numerology,” would raise an interested eyebrow if he knew that RIC’s Illuminated Walkway was unveiled on the ninth day of the ninth month in the ninth year of the third millennium.
Mysterious Writings by Roger Williams Deciphered After Almost Two Centuries
RIC Professor Emeritus of History J. Stanley Lemons
Born on the Tail of a Hurricane: RIC Adjunct Jennifer Bonin
“I was born during Hurricane Agnes, one of New England’s earliest land-falling hurricanes. It seems hurricanes have been following me ever since,” says RIC Adjunct Instructor of Geography Jennifer Bonin ’04.
MEET OUR STUDENTS: Joseph Sherry – Film Scholar
His research will be presented at a conference by the leading academic film and media studies organization in the country.
“Democracy in Disarray”: Peter Mendy Lectures in South Africa
Professor of History and Africana Studies Peter Mendy discusses why democracy in Africa remains largely elusive.
Journalists From Guinea-Bissau Adapt to America Before Beginning Study at RIC
Director and Producer of WHTB Rádio Voz Do Emigrante Frank Baptista (bottom left) gives tour of his radio station to team of Guinea-Bissau journalists.
Expedition to South Africa
Undergraduate research assistants for Associate Professor Roland de Gouvenain, from left, Eric O’Rourke, Bruno Ramos, Keya Thakkar and Hector Nuñez
RIC Professor Redesigns Independence Trail Providence for Teachers
"Rhode Island College, led by President Nancy Carriuolo and team leader Whitney Blankenship, have made an unimaginable contribution to creating this lasting educational resource," said tour founder Robert Burke.
RIC Professor’s Quirky New Novel, “Pyg”
“Pyg” has been described as “deeply funny” and “brilliantly satirical.”