Culture & Community
Arts, culture, and community
Community organizations led by and serving people of color announce Rhode Island Solidarity Fund
The AMOR (Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance) Network, ARISE (Alliance of RI Southeast Asians for Education), DARE (Direct Action for Rights & Equality), The George Wiley Center, and PrYSM (Providence Youth Student Movement) announce th...
Javier Juarez is Providence Student Union's new executive director
"Today’s youth are resilient, multilingual, intelligent and fierce, this is the future who will go off into the world to create a better one. I will do everything in my power to uplift their voices and put them first at the table to move...
Street posters and car protests are both focused on Raimondo
"You can take this campaign we have going in many ways," said @obeygina2020, an account claiming to be the creator of the recent Raimondo posters, "Whether you protest it or are agreeing with it. That's on the audience. It's doing what i...
Rhode Island musicians and artists unite to demand benefits, rent suspension, and more amidst COVID crisis
Over 200 Ocean State artists and musicians sign a statement to state and city governments demanding an immediate, non-discriminatory distribution of Federal relief money, a rent suspension, and more Over 200 Rhode Island artists and musi...
The Womxn Project launches 'Support, Self-Care and Resiliency' video series
"We would love to hear how you are getting through and how we can all work together to thrive, to find ways to give back, and to lead with love, hope and action!" In this time of global crisis, we need one another more than ever. In an e...
Hope and Change for Haiti celebrates International Women's Day
"How many more years do we have to wait before the Hope has literally turned into the Change that my forefathers bled and died for?" asked Representative Anastasia Williams... Hope and Change for Haiti held their 3rd annual International...
Celebrating International Sex Workers Rights Day at the Dark Lady with Coyote RI
Coyote RI, a sex worker's rights organization, celebrated International Sex Workers Rights Day at the Dark Lady on Tuesday evening "to honor sex worker rights as human rights." The event was emceed by Amara Berry, Coyote RI's director of...
Librarians call out big publishing's "unfair, unconstitutional, anti-competitive e-book policy"
"Rhode Island library users are disproportionately hurt by Big Publishing’s unfair and potentially unconstitutional e-book practices," says American Library Association Senior Director of Public Policy Alan Inouye. The Rhode Island Libra...
Hate groups in Rhode Island and what you can do about it
Trigger warning: This piece openly discusses racism, misogyny and other hateful ideologies. "While white supremacist flyering and stickering by Patriot Front and others has risen steadily in Rhode Island over the past year and a half......
On the 400 year anniversary of the English arrival on the homelands of the Wampanoag
“Today, as Massasoit’s tribal community, the Pokanoket, we are land less. Mega-million dollar universities, corporations and land trusts privately own our sacred homelands and are not willing to part with them, and the funding to give ou...