A spouse’s organ failure can send couples on an emotional roller-coaster. Scott Haltzman, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, discusses the relationship crisis faced by a patient whose kidneys failed.

Craig Robinson, a five-year assistant coach at Northwestern and a former two-time Ivy League Player of the Year, has been named the 29th head coach in Brown University's 100-year basketball history. Robinson succeeds Glen Miller, who took a similar position at Penn.

An essay by History Professor emeritus James T. Patterson explores the history of the civil rights movement and looks ahead at challenges the movement faces in the 21st century. History Now is a quarterly online magazine produced by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Economics Professor Glenn Loury participates in a roundtable discussion about the effects of California's prohibition of race-based preferences in public education, and a Philadelphia restaurant's English-only policy. Note: This audio segment contains language that some might find offensive.

The John Carter Brown Library, in collaboration with the Rhode Island Rochambeau Commission, will host a symposium and historical re-enactment on Saturday, June 17, 2006, in commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the historic march to Yorktown, Va. The symposium will be followed by a horse-led procession from The College Green to the Rhode Island State House for a military review and ceremony. The public is invited to take part in the procession.