October 31, 2019

DARE bill to establish fair occupational licenses stalls in the House

“It’s not right that people have served their time and still can’t make a living and support...

October 31, 2019

ACLU: blogger subjected to court “gag order” after he posted a blog about Hopkinton resident

In a case raising important First Amendment issues for the Internet age, the ACLU of Rhode Island...

January 19, 2020

Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence: Astonishing analysis shows gun violence costs Rhode Islanders $95 million a year

New report shows how gun violence impacts communities and taxpayers of the state A new analysis from...

January 19, 2020

Senate Leadership threatens passage of childhood sexual abuse legislation

Representative Carol Hagan McEntee (Democrat, District 33, South Kingstown, Narragansett) and Senator Donna Nesselbush (Democrat, District 15,...

March 2, 2020

Photos from 2019 RI Pride

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March 2, 2020

Providence’s First Annual People of Color Dyke and Trans March

Every year, around the country, Dyke and Trans Marches are held “to give voice to communities either...

January 19, 2020

Ysanel Torres: Every second, every moment, every breath: They mean everything….

There’s this thing about time that I’ll never understand The way it never ends even when it...

January 19, 2020

Faith leaders rally at the State House to demand safer schools

Faith leaders and youth organizers with the One Gun Gone Project met today at the Rhode Island...

March 2, 2020

Reverend Dr Gwendolyn Howard: “Real life examples” of what happens when transgender people have equal rights

On June 10th, the Providence Journal posted an Op-ed by David Carlin. In it, the author makes...

October 31, 2019

Herb Weiss: Religious groups urge House to combat antisemitism and racism

For the second year in a row, the Rhode Island General Assembly’s Senate Judiciary Committee heard a...

January 19, 2020

Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence: Addressing Second Amendment Fallacies

While a handful of rural towns in Rhode Island have introduced second amendment sanctuary resolutions, under the...

January 19, 2020

Jaychele Schenck: Gun control from the perspective of a youth activist, a poem

As a youth, I have been told that activism is a hobby As a youth, I have...

January 19, 2020

Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence: We demand a vote on legislation to ban the sale of high capacity magazines

12 lives were lost on Friday after a shooter fired shots in a municipal building in Virginia...

January 19, 2020

Moms Demand hold Wear Orange event in memory of gun violence victims

The Rhode Island chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown for...

March 2, 2020

Rhode Island’s LGBTQI+ community and allies rally to repudiate Bishop Tobin’s hateful comments

Hundreds of people crowded Cathedral Square in Providence late Sunday afternoon to renounce the words of Providence...