Culture & Community
Arts, culture, and community
'If Jesus were alive today, he would stand with LGBTQ folks, not against them...'
"Everyone has a right to happiness," said Kristine Farrelly, a Christian protester outside Franklin Graham's East Providence event. "I affirm the fact that Jesus loves [LGBTQ people] and accepts them for who they are, despite the message...
Me and Chewbacca
About two decades ago, when I was running Atomic Comics, a comic book store, and writing comics on the side, I was at the San Diego Comic-Con with friends. That’s when I first met Chewbacca, or more accurately, Peter Mayhew, who played C...
Camilo Viveiros, Bella Robinson and Steve Ahlquist are this year's Red Bandana Award recipients
The Red Bandana Fund is proud to announce that the winners of the Red Bandana Award are community activist Camilo Viveiros, journalist Steve Ahlquist, and community activist and director of Coyote RI, Bella Robinson. The Award honors ind...
Franklin Graham’s hate and fear not wanted in Rhode Island
Franklin Graham, son of the famous evangelist Billy Graham, is coming to East Providence on May 26 to preach his message of anti-LGBTQ, anti-Islam, pro-theocracy intolerance. The last time Graham came to Rhode Island was ahead of the 201...
Symposium to examine Rhode Island's significant involvement in the slave trade
"Slavery’s Hinterlands” is a three-day symposium taking place May 2 - 4 at sites in Providence and Pawtucket that will gather leading academics and public historians to explore American slavery as it was: not merely the South’s “peculiar...
Selene Means: Photos from PrYSM protest at Providence City Hall
Photographer Selene Means captures more than images. Here are photos Selene took at yesterday's PrSYM protest at the Providence City Hall. Full story here. The Seng FamilyVanessa Flores Maldanado
A rally for Wikileaks, Chelsea Manning and a free press
Rhode Island Rights and the Rhode Island Anti-War Committee held a rally outside the Federal Courthouse in downtown Providence against the United States government's "unprecedented project to jail those who keep the public informed throu...
The Time is Already, a film by Selene Means
Angered by the 2016 election, a group of people get politically involved for the first time, to ban conversion therapy in Rhode Island Selene Means is a filmmaker, photographer and activist here in Rhode Island who documented the passage...
Martin Hägglund talks about freedom, faith, and the emptiness of infinity
I went to Boston's Harvard Book Store to hear Yale Professor Martin Hägglund speak about his new book, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, because books such as this are exceedingly rare. It is rare to find someone exploring...
Red Bandana Fund seeks nominations for seventh annual award: Who’s your local hero?
The Red Bandana Fund seeks nominations for the Red Bandana Award, given annually since 2013 to a person or organization in the Rhode Island area that embodies the spirit and work of late organizer for peace and justice, Richard Walton. “...