University of Rhode Island’s student organization, Strike a Chord, raised over $500 in a Battle of the Bands Friday night for the local group “Horses Bring Hope,†well surpassing its goal for the night. Strike a Chord works to raise money for local charities through concerts, open mics and various other music events. On…
In 2013, Samuel Ogundare was asked for his picture to be taken for the company Microsoft. Little did he know his face would be seen in an article on the topic of accidental racism. He said that the essential edition of the book had a picture of him and his friend on the cover and…
The University of Rhode Island announced Monday the launching of the new academic health collaborative where a new college of health sciences will join the colleges of nursing and pharmacy. The idea of the collaborative is to make students studying all areas of health, familiar with each other’s majors. Dean of URI’s College of Pharmacy,…
The University of Rhode Island was one of at least a dozen universities nation-wide to receive racist and anti-Semitic fliers remotely sent to their public printers last Thursday. Director of Public Safety Stephen Baker said that the fliers were sent to all public access printers in the library on the Kingston campus and in…
So this has been a long time coming. I’m proud and humbled to help usher in what I hope to be a new tradition here at The Good 5 Cent Cigar. This edition of the paper is going to be dedicated to discussing the current state of race relations in both the University of…
When it comes to the topic of race, there are two chief perspectives: one is from the eyes of someone who is a minority, and the view from someone who isn’t.  Yourself, friends, colleagues, could be of any race or could be from anywhere in the world and, unfortunately, it affects how we can…
Domingo Morel is a lecturer in the department of Political Sciences at Wellesley College, whose research program and teaching portfolio focus on racial and ethnic politics. Morel is a University of Rhode Island alumnus who went on to receive a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Rhode Island College and later received his PHD…
The University of Rhode Island’s journalism department just got significantly more prestigious. While the department already  boasts many successful current or former professional reporters, it now has the Sports Editor of the Providence Journal, Bill Corey. Corey, who has been teaching at URI since 2006, lives a double life of sorts. He has spent…
The answer is knowledge. The answer to the question that has haunted many of us: how do we help? Â Many of us are angry. Many of us are confused. Many of us are frustrated. We feel this way because of the recent events that, I for one, never thought I would see in…