“The appalling silence of the good people is as serious as the vitriolic words of the bad people.” Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke those words to a packed URI gym in 1966. Those words have never been more true. One year later, and less than one year before his death, King was back delivering an […]
The Providence Preservation Society brings this to our attention: The Congdon Street Baptist Church, the oldest surviving African American church in the city, is raising funds for much-needed capital improvements. Completed and dedicated in 1875, the earlier congregation had to contend with troublesome neighbors early on. A period of prosperity was followed by a period
(9.27) Democrats need to get in some good trouble! Last week hundreds of you joined a protest in Burnside Park urging our senators to fight the upcoming Supreme Court nomination. You are invited back this week to hear the plan for that fight and help deliver that plan to Senators Whitehouse and Reed. Aaron Regunberg,
(9.20) Need someplace to go and something to do?!!! A rally has been organized by former state rep and activist Aaron Regunberg and city councilor Katherine Kerwin to demand that the Senate use any and all tactics necessary to foil Republican efforts to ram through another Supreme Court nominee. This president can not be allowed
What can we possibly add to the outpouring of praise for the life and career of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? A trailblazer and lodestar in the realm of women’s rights, she must have been heartened by the victories in the 2018 midterms and last month’s primaries. For it is women, the beneficiaries
“Baked mac and cheese, that’s our famous thing.” So says Food for the Soul owner Robert Richardson in today’s ProJo. Richardson tells the Journal that since the death of George Floyd in May “he started to see customers coming in who said they wanted to support local Black-owned businesses,” and maybe we can help stimulate
One could fill a warehouse with the things House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello does not know. Of course everything he says and does is best understood through the lens of his Trumpian worldview (Mattiello is still a registered Democrat) but never underestimate his near total ignorance of the world around him. His latest gaffe occurred during
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(6.19) A youth-led and -organized protest demanding systemic change by defunding* the police and investing in the health and well-being of the black community will start today at 4pm at Classical High School. The protest will continue on to the State House with a sit-in and speaking program. (Facebook event.) We are meeting at PCTA/Classical
Just add wind. This image is not meant to be a metaphor. I am not trying to make a statement. I was really hoping for just one tiny gust of wind to fill out these flags, because symbols are important and the Providence Police have made a worthy gesture here that I find encouraging. When
(6.14) A peaceful protest is being called by ‘Gen Z: We Want to Live,’ a new youth-led group joining the burgeoning protest landscape first ignited by the death of George Floyd. Judging from the enormous turnout for last week’s demonstration, also comprised mainly of teens and young adults, this should be big. The event will
June is Pride Month and the Rhode Island State House is illuminated in celebration. Pride Month is held in June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at
(6.9) An outdoor celebration of the life of Breonna Taylor will take place at 6pm today near Eddy and Fountain Streets. This invitation comes from AS220: Tonight at 6pm at 1 Eddy Street, near the Biltmore Hotel, all the murals on plywood from Westminster will be on view in a massive parking lot. We will
(6.5) Some confusion on this event, but it looks like there will be another demonstration this afternoon meeting at Kennedy Plaza. Participants will then march to the state house for speakers. (Facebook event.) I can find no link for hosts Step Up RI. Councilwoman Katherine Kerwin seems acquainted with the youth organizers. We as youth
(5.7) Knock it off while knocking one back. What started last year as Drinking Liberally will, for the time being, be known as Zooming Liberally. For the first installment former state rep and soon-to-be former Harvard 1L*, Aaron Regunberg, will be interviewing Asher Schofield, the mastermind behind the “Knock It Off” T-shirts. His shop, Frog
(2.29) Time to shake things up.* Join the ACLU of Rhode Island for a legislative advocacy workshop this Saturday at the Rochambeau Library. This event is nonpartisan, free, and open to all. Learn more about what happens during RI’s legislative session and how you can advocate for civil liberties. This is a hands-on workshop for
(12.16) Head over to the Wild Colonial on Monday for the Holiday Muckrakers Ball, a fundraiser to support the best muckraking journalism in Rhode Island — Uprise RI and Steve Ahlquist. (It’s like Nine Inch Nails: Steve is Uprise RI.) I can not overstate the service this gentleman is providing to the people of this