Culture & Community

A vigil to remember and honor all victims of domestic violence homicide

The Rhode Island State House was illuminated in purple as survivors, family members, advocates, and supporters gathered to honor and remember Rhode Islanders whose lives have been lost to domestic violence. Purple is the official color o...

PRONK! 2018

Held every year in Providenceon Indigenous People's Day, PRONK! describes itself as "a cacophonous street celebration with out of town brass bands! We are a street intervention like no other, with outfits and misfits from Rhode Island an...

Hate groups shut down their own rally with violence

Shortly after members of fascist groups known as the Proud Boys and/or Patriot Prayer started a fight with anti-fascist counter protesters, police shut down the "Resist Marxism" rally on the State House lawn in Providence on Saturday. Th...

New Bridges for Haitian Success to hold 2nd Annual Fundraising Dinner

As the Haitian community grows in Rhode Island, New Bridges for Haitian Success sees an opportunity to educate the Providence community. This year we are asking you to join our 2nd Annual Fundraising Dinner to support our programs and mi...

The vigil for William Parsons

DARE commemorates Black August with revolutionary panel

The Behind the Walls Committee at DARE (Direct Action for Rights and Equality) has long advocated for a series of reforms in our prison system. To that end, the committee held an event on Saturday to mark Black August, featuring "guest r...

SNAP to Bishop Tobin: Your words ring hollow to survivors

Bishop Thomas Tobin of the Catholic Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, worked as the auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1992 to 1996. In recent statements to the press in the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report,...

Right-wing rally in Boston shut down by much larger counter-protest, again

"Come on!" shouted a man next to me, one of the 2-300 people who gathered in Boston's Government Center to protest the right-wing rally organized by Boston Free Speech and Resist Marxism. "We all know how this ends!" continued the man. "...

The Time is Already is a terrific documentary about banning conversion therapy and the Rhode Island General Assembly

The Time is Already is a short documentary film (32min) about the efforts of a dedicated group of LGBTQ activists to pass a bill to ban conversion therapy in Rhode Island. It's about small group of people who came in angry and hurt after...

Ocean State Against Hate shuts down Resist Marxism rally in Providence

The rain was unrelenting. 250+ people organized under the coalition Ocean State Against Hate prevented thirty people from Resist Marxism from holding their "Providence Freedom Rally" on the south steps of the Rhode Island State House by...