(2.27) Last Monday a group of fascist goons set upon the Red Ink Community Library. Bearing a Nazi flag and banging on the windows, they screamed hateful, bigoted threats at those peacefully reading inside. Black Lives Matter RI PAC reports: It was only after several brave community members started yelling at the neo-nazis to leave …
This Valentine goes out to all the amazing Black women whose efforts may very well have saved this democracy. And that is not hyperbole. First up is Stacey Abrams of course. It is no exaggeration to say that her tireless work to flip Georgia for the Democrats and flip the Senate towards sanity may have …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
‘Support Black Business’ lists have been circulating on social media, mostly it seems on Reddit, with restaurants dominating. Bon Appetit magazine has been helping to promote the initiative. The accuracy of these lists can not be assured. The restaurant business is notoriously fluid under the best of circumstances: ownership can change hands, and some of …