Institute professor and interdisciplinary storyteller Claire Andrade-Watkins was named one of the 50 Greatest Living Rhode Islanders by Go Local Prov News, alongside historian Gordon Wood, actress Viola Davis, journalist Meredith Viera, and more.
President Lee Pelton was a guest on CBS Boston’s series Boston Voices, discussing systemic racism and the nation’s youth playing a powerful role.
In an episode of These Truths podcast, which examines literature, Black playwrights Lynn Nottage and Jeremy O. Harris discuss modern theatre and inclusion as one of their topics.
Jabari Asim, Writing, Literature and Publishing associate professor and Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow, contributed to a WBUR Cognoscenti piece titled “July 4th Is Different This Year, And Also The Same. ‘Independence’ Day Is Complicated” and shared the reasons his family does not celebrate the holiday.
Two Writing, Literature and Publishing (WLP) faculty members and a former WLP faculty member were in the news recently for their involvement with Writers Against Racial Injustice, a coalition to raise money for the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative.
Executive in Residence and Director of the Business of Creative Enterprises Program Wes Jackson contributed to an article examining race and pop culture in the wake of civil unrest across the country, as the murders George Floyd and other Black men and women have sparked protests and a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement.
President Lee Pelton will chair a new initiative from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to raise millions of dollars to address racial inequity in the city, the Boston Globe reports.
Jacquie Gales Webb ’77 was named The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s (CPB) vice president for radio, according to Inside Radio.
Professor and Chair of Performing Arts Bob Colby contributed to an article describing how colleges and universities across the country have needed to adapt their arts curriculum and get creative amidst COVID-19.
Trustee Raj Sharma, who is a board member of American India Foundation and Managing Director of Wealth Management and head, The Sharma Group, praised the efforts of the organization as it raised more than $2 million to support the rehabilitation efforts of India’s migrant communities in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic.
