Lisa Schlein GENEVA — A new global survey finds that millennials — people between the ages of 18 and 35 — view the world with cautious optimism and embrace a value system that is largely progressive. More than 26,000 millennials from 181 countries answered the survey in nine languages. A diverse group of young people participated, […]readmore
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Foundation will give three visual artists $25,000 to devote a year to their craft PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Island visual artists who dream of spending a year working on their craft have until Aug. 18 to apply for $25,000 fellowships from the Rhode Island Foundation. The grants are considered to be among the largest no-strings-attached […]readmore
La cantante y compositora mexicana de 20 años se está convirtiendo en un gran hit internacional. SofÍa Reyes, ha recibido un disco platino en España y Argentina por su sencillo »Muévelo» Feat Wisin y un disco de oro en Argentina por el sencillo »Conmigo-Rest Of Your Life». Ambos sencillos han sido un éxito en las […]readmore
PAWTUCKET – U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline’s (D-RI) office is now accepting submissions for the 2016 Congressional Art Competition in Rhode Island’s First Congressional District. “I’m proud to be hosting the 2016 Congressional Art Competition for Rhode Island’s First Congressional District. Rhode Islanders have always treasured the arts and the humanities, and I know that […]readmore
As part of his continuing effort to put pressure on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua, President Ronald Reagan orders over 3,000 U.S. troops to Honduras, claiming that Nicaraguan soldiers had crossed its borders. As with so many of the other actions taken against Nicaragua during the Reagan years, the result was only more confusion […]readmore
On March 1, 1974, in addition to handing up criminal indictments against seven former high-ranking officials in the Nixon administration, a grand jury in the District of Columbia named the president himself as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up. The drumbeat of bad news was growing louder by the month for President Nixon, as […]readmore
On this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan begins teaching six-year-old Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing after a severe illness at the age of 19 months. Under Sullivan’s tutelage, including her pioneering “touch teaching” techniques, the previously uncontrollable Keller flourished, eventually graduating from college and becoming an international lecturer and activist. Sullivan, later […]readmore
Actor Robert Mitchum is released from a Los Angeles County prison farm after spending the final week of his two-month sentence for marijuana possession there. In the fall of 1948, Mitchum, the star of classics such as Cape Fear and Night of the Hunter, was smoking a joint at a small party in the Laurel […]readmore