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Politics/Government
Over 100 Protest ICE Detention of Chansareth Hong, Member of Providence Cambodian Refugee Community for the Past 50 Years
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Providence resident Chansareth Hong on Wednesday, July 22. Despite pushback from several community groups, Providence City Council, Mayor Brett Smiley, and Governor Dan McKee, Hong was sent to the Wyatt [...]
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Arts/Food/Culture
Chaos in Close Quarters: Surrealist Persian Novel Translated by Brown University Professor
The classic apartment novel is a group portrait of people who’ve been brought together by some combination of affordable rents, available employment, and a landlord who isn’t paying too much attention. “Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime” [...]
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Local Elections 2026 Politics/Government
Sojourner House Hosts Attorney General Candidates at Lincoln School in Providence
On Thursday July 16, four candidates running to be Rhode Island Attorney General visited the Lincoln School in Providence for a forum on their policies. Hosted by Sojourner House, the candidates spoke about ways they would [...]
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Arts/Food/Culture
“Not Just Tapes” Presses Play on Local Bootleg Bollywood Video Collection
On a hot summer’s day on the third floor of Providence Public Library, in the Joan T. Boghassian Gallery, the bright white box of a room is functioning like a portal. On one wall, there are [...]
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Readers' VoicesSubmit an article
Broad Street Residents Need Accountability for Repeated Nightclub Incidents.
We are Washington Park residents in Ward 10, and we are deeply concerned about the [...]
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I’m Sleeping in A Shelter in Providence. And I Built an App for Folks Seeking Help With Basic Survival Needs.
Let me start with the most honest sentence I can write: I am sleeping in [...]
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Providence County is a “Childcare Desert.” We Need to Take Better Care of the Folks Who Care for Our Children.
My daughter Arlan is three years old and, by choice, speaks primarily in Spanish. She [...]
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In the Summertime, Providence is a Public-Transit Paradise. Here’s Why.
With high gas prices and the increasing threat of climate change, have you noticed the [...]
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Letters to the editorSubmit a letter
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor – July 15, 2026
Thank you for including the article [I’m Sleeping in A Shelter in Providence. And I Built an App for Folks Seeking Help With Basic Survival Needs.] about accessing social services info. I drove people experiencing homelessness [...]
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Letters to the Editor – June 24, 2026
[In response to Providence and the Underground Railroad: New Bibliography Documents Anti-Slavery Activity in RI] My grandmother had a house on Pratt street that had an underground tunnel that went to Congdon street. I was told [...]
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Letters to the Editor – June 17, 2026
[In response to The White House Spent Your Tax Dollars Dehumanizing Latinos. In Providence, That’s Unacceptable – and We Should All Say So. published on June 10, 2026] Thank you to Marcela Betancur for calling out the [...]
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Sound and Vision (Poetry)
NOCTURNAL WINTER FEATURES
DIAMONDS * GOLD * GUNS * FLATSCREENS the pawnshop neon bleeds. A bartender at a [...]
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I had forgotten life was a job, and that thinking about it that way wasn’t [...]
Read moreI Hear Rhode Island Singing
From RI Center for the Book: We are thrilled to share I Hear America Singing a 250-line [...]
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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing [...]
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