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Since 2011, GoLocal has annually featured Rhode Islanders of note to watch in the coming year. This year’s list includes an emerging star in the music industry and a 16-year-old phenom.
This year, the Providence City Council will see a mass exodus. At least two councilors are expected not to run for reelection — Nirva LaFortune, who is running for Mayor of Providence, and Kat Kerwin, who has told supporters she will not run again.
No one on the Providence City Council made more headlines in 2021 than Nirva LaFortune.
After the release of body-cam footage of the violent arrest of 3 teens, activists called for repeal of the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights.
PHOTO: CC 2.0 On Monday, July 19, 2021, at 6:00 p.m., Cranston Councilwoman Aniece Germain and Providence Councilor Nirva LaFortune, in collaboration with the Hope and Change for Haiti- HnC, the Haitian American Partnership for Positive Action HAPPA-RI along with the support of the City of Cranston will hold a Peace Memorial Vigil to honor the life of President Jovenel Moïse who was assassinated on July 7, 2021, at his private residence in Haiti. “It is critical that we, as a community, need to come together in support of our fellows who are mourning the loss of so many lives. In this time...