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The state seal of Rhode Island
August 24, 2022
A new report suggests ways Providence, Rhode Island, can atone for its extensive ties to the transatlantic slave trade and centuries…
May 6, 2022
As a child growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Terrell Osborne saw parts of his neighborhood taken by eminent domain.
November 20, 2021
Rhode Island was incorporated as The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations when it declared statehood in 1790.
August 11, 2016
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A candidate for Rhode Island poet laureate said he was racially profiled and unjustly arrested by…
April 28, 2014
VIDEO - The mother of a disabled child is asking for the public's help after she says a specially designed…
February 9, 2014
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Studies show poorer children enter school having heard millions of fewer words than more affluent…
November 3, 2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Islanders have voted to keep the word "Plantations" in the state's official name despite concerns…
March 19, 2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The chief of Providence's police department and the mayor are defending themselves against accusations that they…