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The Power of the Hip Wine
Dancer/choreographer A’Keitha Carey describes a dance form she created called CaribFunk.
Filmmaker Jay Heyman Lectures on the Making of a Documentary
“Jay’s visit was an opportunity for our students, who are at the beginning of their filmmaking careers, to see and hear how challenging, unpredictable and, above all, rewarding this kind of work can be,” said Adjunct Professor Soren Sorensen.
Exclusive Interview: Viola Davis talks about her life and her new film
“Every time I’ve seen Davis, she has created a character so real that, for a few seconds at least, she stops the movie in its tracks.” – Charles Taylor, Salon.com
MEET OUR STUDENTS: Budding Filmmaker Emerges from Shadow of Genocide
In a voice so soft one must strain to hear him, RIC communication major Virgile Mahoro speaks of the atrocities he witnessed.
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.
RIC Hosts 2014 STEM Career Expo for Girls
In a workshop titled “Learning to Make Things Fly,” students received a quick lesson in physics and built their own catapult.
MEET OUR STUDENTS: Jose Rosario – An Odd Twist of Fate Led to His Life Purpose
This 19-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, wants to help support at-risk teens.
RIC Student Meets the President of the United States
“It was an honor to share my story with President Obama earlier today and now it is my pleasure to introduce him,” says Lisbeth Avalos
