Last year, Rhode Island College partnered with the R.I. Black Heritage Society (RIBHS) to help preserve and manage their archives, which are now being stored in Building 8 on the East campus. Thousands of items – letters, photographs, quilts and other historical material – will need to be inventoried, cataloged and digitized, with the goal of sharing these archives with the Rhode Island community.
Alumnus David Pollak ’87 has gifted Rhode Island College with $10,000 to establish the Bold Heritage Fund to support research and programming around the accomplishments of Black women in Rhode Island.