second for Philosophy from Molloy College in New York. She has now received over 80 awards and honors and 23 Honorary Doctorates She was interviewed for the film !Women Art Revolution. Ringgold resides with her second husband Burdette "Birdie" Ringgold, whom she married in 1962, in a home in Englewood, New Jersey, where she has lived and maintained a steady studio practice since 1992. Copyright suit against BET Ringgold was the plaintiff in a significant copyright case, Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television. Black Entertainment Television (BET) had aired several episodes of the television series Roc in which a Ringgold poster was shown on nine occasions for a total of 26.75 seconds. Ringgold sued for copyright infringement. The court found BET liable, rejecting a de minimis defense raised by BET, which had argued that the use of Ringgold's copyrighted work was so minimal that it did not constitute an infringement. In popular culture A new elementary and middle school in Hayward, California, Faith Ringgold School K-8, was named after her in 2007. Her name appears in the lyrics of the Le Tigre song "Hot Topic." Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. She is featured in the 2021 documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light. Selected exhibitions Her first one-woman show, American People opened December 19, 1967 at Spectrum Gallery. The show included three of her murals: The Flag is Bleeding, U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of Black Power, and Die. She wanted the opening to not be "another all white" opening but a "refined black art affair." There was music and her children invited their classmates. Over 500 people attended the opening including artists Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Richard Mayhew. In 2019, a major retrospective of Ringgold's work was mounted by London's Serpentine Galleries, from June 6 until September 8. This was Ringgold's first show at a European institution. Her first career retrospective in her hometown opened at the New Museum, New York in 2022 before traveling to the De Young Museum, San Francisco. Ringgold's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Notable works in public collections The American People Series #1: Between Friends (1963), Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York The American People Series #4: The Civil Rights Triangle (1963), Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland