Culture & Community
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The vigil for Vanessa Guillén in Providence
"The military is presented as one of the only choices to make it out of poverty. Working class people should not be coerced into entering the military and fighting other working class people abroad just to provide for their basic needs."...
PVD Parks Commission discusses Columbus statue
"...if you know the story of Columbus and the real history - not the white washed history - not the 'Columbus discovered America fairy tale' history - you know that he was a genocidal person. He's responsible for the genocide of hundreds...
Providence Christopher Columbus statue removed
https://youtu.be/67D8lrbtLjk From a press release: Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza today announced the City will be removing the Christopher Columbus statue from its current location in the Elmwood neighborhood until a final determination...
Selene Means: Providence Juneteenth Youth after their Liberation
"You know what the southern plantations used to do during that Civil War? They used to move their slave populations around, especially in states like Mississippi and Louisiana, trying to avoid the liberation of black people," said Marco...
Rhode Island Pride marches for Black and Trans lives
"When the Providence Journal covered the first Pride parade in 1976, the headline read, City Tolerates First Homosexual Parade," said Ray Sirico, President of Rhode Island Pride to the crowd of hundreds gathered in Cathedral Square in Pr...
Providence’s Annual Dyke and Trans People of Color March
"I'm grateful to be a member of this church, and to be a part of the Black community as an out, queer person, because I recognize it has not always been a safe space for everyone," said O'Sha, putting the projection into perspective. "Of...
PVD youth organize and lead Juneteenth march for racial justice
"I've noticed that there's missing history, history that has to do with my skin," said Faith, a student at Central High School in Providence. "I personally feel that the only way we can all see eye to eye is if we educate those who don't...
Linden Place to hold fundraiser on Juneteenth
Juneteenth is an annual celebration of the end of slavery in the United States (not counting the 13th Amendment) and Linden Place is holding a fundraiser on that day. Linden Place, the mansion of George DeWolf, is maintained as a museum...
The movement for Black Lives in Rhode Island: An overview
"The movement is drawing in Rhode Islanders of all stripes, and it cannot stop now. No matter what voice in this struggle has appealed to you, if you have understood the violence of racist policing, prisons, housing, medicine, and so man...
Black Lives Matter in Newport's North End
"God did not put us on this Earth to be murdered and Black lives have always mattered." Between 200 and 300 people gathered in Newport's Miantonomi Memorial Park on Saturday in a rally for Black Lives. After a speaking program, organizer...