PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island is not home to a “Johnny Reb” statue or any other of the Confederate memorials that are being toppled or removed throughout the South in the wake of George Floyd ...

Having contributed to its formulation, Rhode Island’s leaders demanded such a system in return for this state’s grudging ratification of the Constitution on May 29, 1790. Patrick T. Conley is ...

Take a self-guided tour that explores Providence’s Black history from the early days of the Rhode Island colony to today. The city’s Early Black History Walking Tour provides insight into the ...

MORE than a hundred and twenty years before the Bill of Rights guaranteed religious freedom throughout the American Colonies, the citizens of the Rhode Island Colony petitioned Charles II of ...