Viola Davis on Thursday addressed graduating seniors at the high school in the struggling Rhode Island city where she grew up, urging them to treasure "hard times and joyous moments" and telling them that the "privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." full story ![]()
Governor criticizes alma mater over change at high school's basketball program — An emotional Gov. Pat Quinn lashed out Thursday at his alma mater, Fenwick High School, for firing his brother as boys basketball coach after 28 years.
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By Thomas J. Morgan CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- It has been a good week for the chess whizzes from the Calcutt Middle School and Central Falls High School. Not only did both teams wind up in the top ten nationally of their respective groups at the U.S. Chess Federation's Supernational competition in Nashville, Tenn., but they also got a boost from actress Viola Davis, a Central...
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Four years after plans for the Fargo native to speak were scrapped when she was imprisoned in Iran, she was finally able to give the commencement speech at her alma mater.
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President Obama will deliver the commencement address this spring at all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta, the alma mater of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Lena Dunham is urging her fellow "Obies" to stick together as her alma mater in Ohio wrestles with reports of racism.
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Lena Dunham is urging her fellow "Obies" to stick together as her alma mater in Ohio wrestles with reports of racism.
miamiherald.com (2 months and 19 days ago)
Lena Dunham is urging her fellow "Obies" to stick together as her alma mater in Ohio wrestles with reports of racism.
middletownjournal.com (2 months and 19 days ago)
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — William Henry Seward's upstate New York college alma mater is joining Hollywood and the publishing world in putting the 19th-century politician in the spotlight.
boston.com (3 months ago)
Dunham tells students at alma mater Oberlin to 'protect each other' as it wrestles with racism
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Oscar-nominated and championed by Meryl Streep, the actress Viola Davis isn't doing too badly for a girl born into poverty on a Southern plantation.
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