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In the aftermath of Obama's victory on Tuesday, let's consider some of the dramatic changes in recent American life. A little more than 30 years ago, the following photo epitomized the violence, hostility, and bitter sense of racial division that...
Ray Rickman , the book-lover and former state rep, sent along the following thoughts, which touch on the special importance of this election for African-Americans: Events of world-historic significance may be understood through the application of intellectual...
WJAR-TV's Jim Taricani made a memorable comment on this post , so I thought I'd break it out here for wider consideration. For this generation, some thoughts from an aging boomer. I remember vividly standing on a tarmac at RAF Lankenheath Air...
Shortly before 9:30 pm last night, a huge roar went up among the Democratic crowd packing the 17th floor ballroom at the Providence Biltmore . Obama had been projected as the winner of Ohio -- a state that Republicans have almost always had to win to...
Action Speaks! , the superb discussion series at AS220, returns tonight (5:30, 115 Empire St., Providence) with another provocative discussion, looking at how the US Census began in 2000 to allow people to identify themselves as being of mixed race. For...
From College Hill : PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new report analyzing political attitudes and civic engagement of Latinos in Rhode Island will be released by Brown University on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. The report, titled Myths vs. Reality...
Marc Levitt, AS220, and the Action Speaks! crew do a great job every year in staging a provocative and thought-provoking discussion series. The focus this year is race in America, and tomorrow evening's forum will view this through the prism of Norman...
Some in the media, including WPRO's Dan Yorke, have made reference to the "Bradley effect" theory that Barack Obama's poll ratings could be inflated by as much as six percent -- due to the dynamics of race. Let's recognize that this...
-- N4N says Sox beat the Rays in six, although I really have no gut feeling other than anticipating series of close and hard-fought games. -- Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket has an opening tonight, the Museum of Small Finds, from 7-9. -- The Dominican...
Action Speaks! , the compelling annual discussion series at AS220 , returns this Wednesday (5:30-7), with a focus on race in America. The first installment this season will examine this event from 1910: Racist biologist Charles Davenport creates the Eugenic...
The ProJo has gotten around to deleting the back and forth among two commenters on its Politics blog that began when one of them said that recently deceased Newport denizen and GOP icon Eileen Slocum . . . once referred to her half-white, half-black grandchildren...
From commenters on the ProJo's politics blog , reacting to Eileen Slocum's death: Comments wally pickford said: I remember Eileen. She was the personification of women's liberation before women became liberated. With her inimitable, free-wheeling...
A number of writers have positioned the 2008 presidential election as a generational watershed, not least because of the dynamic personal quality that helped Obama to emerge at the top of the Democratic pack. (Of course, there's still plenty of politics...
Matt writes about it in this week's Phoenix: Eight years after an effort began to remove the word “plantations” from Rhode Island’s official state name, a related bill has not made it out of committee. Yet during a House Fi-nance Committee hearing last...
Matt writes about it in this week's Phoenix: Eight years after an effort began to remove the word “plantations” from Rhode Island’s official state name, a related bill has not made it out of committee. Yet during a House Fi-nance Committee hearing...
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