“Un regreso a casa”: El Centro Comunitario de Elmwood reabre tras siete años con un nuevo laboratorio de computación y centro de aprendizaje

by Eric Halvarson

Un “ancla” del Distrito 9 se abre al uso comunitario por primera vez desde 2019. El viernes, el Centro Comunitario de Elmwood inauguró nuevas renovaciones que incluyen un laboratorio de computación y mejoras en los sistemas básicos mecánicos, eléctricos y de plomería del edificio. El [...]

Divestment and Democracy: Activists Attempt to Use Providence Ballot Initiative to Fight Against Genocide

by Eric Halvarson

“Today’s the day!” On March 27, staff at the Providence City Clerk office greeted about 15 activists delivering signatures of 1,200 Providence residents. The signatures represent the first step in a ballot initiative to ask voters a question in the upcoming November election: Will the [...]

Local News Sites Launch Collaborative

by The Providence Eye

Six Newsrooms Band Together to Strengthen Local News Coverage Editor’s Note: The following is a press release announcing the launch of Rhode Island News Collaborative (RINC), of which The Providence Eye is a founding member. Six independent newsrooms announce the formation of the Rhode Island [...]

Derecho a saber 101: Cómo solicitar registros públicos y por qué es importante

by Annmarie Timmins – Granite State News Collaborative

Una guía para cualquier persona que quiera solicitar información local o estatal Por Annmarie Timmins – Granite State News Collaborative La prensa desempeña un papel importante a la hora de exigir responsabilidades al gobierno, pero el público también lo hace, vigilando a sus funcionarios locales [...]

Brown University’s Security Review Enters Final Phase. How Will Campus Change?

by Eric Halvarson

Brown University students returned to a different campus in January. New emergency phones appeared in front of their dorms. Twice as many police officers were on patrol. Private security guards checked for school IDs as they entered the library. New cameras watched them travel to [...]

“The Comeuppance” de The Wilbury ofrece un teatro significativo y urgente

by Judith Clinton

“The Comeuppance” de Branden Jacobs-Jenkins es un drama de reencuentro pospandémico, oscuramente cómico, que corta con la precisión de un bisturí y la fuerza de un puñetazo en el estómago. En la fascinante producción de The Wilbury Theatre Group, cinco antiguos marginados de la escuela [...]

Observando la controversia desde el otro muro: La comunidad de muralistas de Providence reflexiona sobre el papel del arte público

by Eric Halvarson

Un mural de 43 pies de alto y 38 pies de ancho en el costado del bar The Dark Lady, en el centro de la ciudad, muestra el contorno de una mujer rubia enmarcada por formas geométricas azules. Solo un ojo está terminado; el resto [...]

In Twice Born, Hester Kaplan Merges Biography and Memoir to Understand Her Elusive Father

by Alizah Holstein

The opening entry in the magisterial compendium begun in 1855 and now known as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an excerpt from “The Song of the Harper,” a poem found in the tomb of the Egyptian king Intef. Dating to around 2600 BCE, the poem speaks [...]

Factory on the Woonasquatucket Being Transformed into 500-Person Capacity Baptist Church

by Eric Halvarson

A new cupola sits on top of a large brick building on Kinsley Avenue, and on the inside, the shape looks like a cross. The structure lets light shine down into the second floor, which will soon open up into a new mezzanine that looks [...]

Why Some Communities Don’t Trust the Media — And What Newsrooms Are Doing about It

by Paul Cuno-Booth

Editor’s Note: To commemorate the upcoming celebration of Local News Day on April 9, The Eye is reprinting select articles from a series titled “Know Your News” by Granite State News Collaborative. About: Know Your News is a Granite State News Collaborative and NENPA Press [...]