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Report outlines racial disparities in RI, calls for policy change

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The Black Philanthropy Bannister Fund is offering more than $100,000 in grant money to organizations that serve Rhode Island's Black community.

In 1842, an attempt to enfranchise all men in Rhode Island resulted in two governors, two constitutions and what we now know as the Dorr Rebellion.

Rhode Island Slave History Medallions in Newport received $10,000 to expand its Marking the Landscape Statewide program. The organization

RIMs publisher, John Palumbo, introduces the February issue. February 3, 2021 Meaghan Susi Many of us in the regional magazine industry have been to countless conferences and webinars where experts and colleagues have emphasized that a successful local publishing entity needs to reflect the essence of the community it serves. February is Black History Month and with the heightened awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement, it is only appropriate to note that we are listening, we are trying, ...

City Hall in Central Fallls, Rhode Island.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff PROVIDENCE — Latino elected leaders in Rhode Island are calling for Governor Gina M. Raimondo to make densely populated areas of the state, in which most of the state’s Latino and Black residents live, a priority for distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea, Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza, Providence City Council President Sabina Matos, Central Falls Mayor James A. Diossa, Central F...

Should Rhode Island cities with the highest COVID-19 rates get the vaccine early? The push to protect at-risk communities may be hampered by mistrust and misinformation, officials say By Edward Fitzpatrick Globe Staff,Updated December 17, 2020, 5:51 p.m. Email to a Friend Central Falls health ambassadors Yanina Zuniga, left, and Elvin Toro stopped by City Hall to replenish their supply of packaged information and face masks to distribute during the coronavirus pandemic.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staf...