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Stokes named R.I.’s second historian laureate

Government 04/30/2025

The head of Rhode Island’s diversity office will be the state’s second historian laureate. Keith Stokes will take over the voluntary role of delivering lectures...

United Way awards $1.5M in equity fund grants

Economic Activity 08/14/2024

PROVIDENCE – Fifteen organizations will share $1.5 million in grants from the Providence Equity Fund at the United Way of Rhode Island, the nonprofit...

MAYOR BRETT P. SMILEY and his team have been reviewing the city's $10 million reparations budget, a hallmark of his predecessor Jorge O. Elorza's administration. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

City rescinds $150K contract amid review of racial reparations, ARPA budgets

Government 03/29/2023

PROVIDENCE – Mayor Brett P. Smiley's administration has rescinded a $150,000 contract awarded to the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society as Smiley undertakes a...

R.I. civil rights history exhibit to open with panel discussion, speaking...

Nonprofit 08/30/2019

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Historical Society, the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society and the R.I. Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission are celebrating the...

Montiero honored for civil rights activism

In Their Own Words 03/23/2018

CLIFFORD R. MONTIERO has worked in social justice and civil rights for more than 60 years. Montiero was a part of the civil rights...

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