2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote in the United States.* In honor of the suffrage centennial, Dr. […]
Raquel Otheguy (Assistant Professor, History) has been named a 2020 National Academy of Education/ Spencer Postdoctoral fellow. This competitive postdoctoral fellowship program supports 30 early [...]
Black Lives Matter. We say their names: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery. State-sanctioned violence compounded by a lack of access to health care, fresh food, [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson led the 19th century Transcendentalist movement, emphasizing self-reliance, individual moral choices, harmony with nature, and a philosophy of daily living not unlike 21st [...]
Dr. Robert Wechsler (Adjunct Assistant Professor, History) researched, wrote and curated a New Rochelle Public Library exhibit in February 2020 on the Charles W. Dickerson Fife, Drum and Bugle [...]
In 1856, a free black man named José Moreno did something that shook up Cuba’s newly established system of segregated public schools: He applied for a teaching license. Professor Raquel Alicia [...]
Congratulations Class of 2020! You did it — and during one of the toughest semesters of our lifetime. We are so very proud of you all. Good wishes, Faculty and […]
In honor of Black History Month 2020, BCC Reads and Male Empowerment Network (MEN) coordinated the panel discussion “Becoming Woke” featuring Professors Ahmed Reid (History), Prithi [...]
Dr. Robert Wechsler has worked on an exhibit for New Rochelle Public Library on Troop 16, a segregated Boy Scout troop in New Rochelle that morphed into the Charles W. […]
