If you only listen to the first few seconds of a Penn Masala song, you would probably label it as typical a capella fare — the arrangement of a mainstream pop song — until the group bursts unexpectedly and abruptly into one of their signature mashups of Hindi and English lyrics. Penn Masala, a male ...
What do Dance Dance Revolution, a jar of pickles and the Chinese land of the dead have in common? The answer is absolutely nothing, unless you are familiar with the story of “410[GONE],” the latest production staged by Sock and Buskin, which opened Thursday at the Leeds Theater. The semi-autobiographical ...
“What is to be done to slay the dragon of modern racism?” asked Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor of sociology at Duke University and one of the many academics who spoke Friday at “Race Today: A Symposium on Race in America.” The event, organized by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity ...
“The way in which we talk about race has really changed in the United States,” said Kevin Nadal, associate professor of psychology at the City University of New York, addressing a room of students and faculty members at this year’s E(RACE)D But Not Forgotten conference Saturday. E(RACE)D, first ...
Benjamin Lundberg, a performance artist whose work explores issues of transnational identity, is the newest resident artist at AS220, a local nonprofit community arts center based in downtown Providence. Lundberg previously served as a member of AS220’s rotational Artist in Residence program last ...
This series will explore racism at Brown. This story, the first of three, will look at the role racism plays in relationships among students. Updated Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 11:59 a.m. “I feel like malicious racism is hard to find on campus, but there’s a large range of what people would consider ...
Administering a local anesthetic decreases the pain patients feel during an important procedure for staging breast cancer, but does not interfere with the surgeon’s ability to determine tumor presence, according to a new study by University researchers in the October issue of the Journal of Nuclear ...
Music from the around the world resounded Friday in Alumnae Hall, where dancers’ festive choreography mingled with aromas of international dishes at Class Coordinating Board’s culture fair, “Around the World in 180 Minutes.” The fair featured free food and performances from student groups, ...
Students and alums gathered around three wire cages on the Main Green Sunday afternoon to enjoy yet another installment of the Class Coordinating Board-sponsored event, “Super Duper Heavy Petting.” This event, begun by the 2015 CCB in spring 2013, has quickly become tradition, according to Class ...
As the semester kicks off, the University is promoting “Transformative Conversations@Brown,” a project launched by administrators in February and sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity. The project “strives to provide opportunities and spaces to engage respectfully and thoughtfully ...
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