In Providence, Community Members Stand on the Front Lines Against ICE

by Maya Davis

On Thursday April 24th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detained a man after a confrontation in front of his home in Providence. The man, a Dominican national living in the U.S. without legal authorization, had previously been arrested on multiple charges, including domestic violence, [...]

The Future of the Port of Providence

by Joshua Geaughan

Editor’s note: This article is the latest installment in a series of articles about the Providence port and ProvPort’s Master Planning process, written and researched by the team of student journalists at Communities of Hope. Read previous articles here and here. According to The Grantham [...]

“No Tariffs on Sharing”: Tool Libraries Offer Resilience Amid Federal Chaos

por Ella Fassler

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Truthout. Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. As a handy person, Devon Curtin spends a lot of time helping people enrich their living spaces. Recently, while working with a friend to remodel their floor, Curtin noticed that the [...]

Kirstin Allio Wants You to Wake Up

by Diane Josefowicz

Double-Check for Sleeping Children is Providence writer Kirstin Allio’s second volume of short stories and her fourth book. It might also be her best. In twenty lyrical short stories of everyday life, Allio delicately reckons with the ways in which adults reveal themselves to be [...]

Jane’s Walk Returns to Providence: Annual Community-Led Explorations of City Spaces

by Sarah Gleason

Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free, neighbor-led walking conversations within a city space, inspired by urban activist Jane Jacobs— the activist and author who helped stop an expressway from slicing through lower Manhattan and contributed to the New Urbanist movement. Inspired by her [...]

Can the City and the Commissioner Collaborate?

por Jonathan Howard

After 5 years of state management of the city’s schools, Mayor Brett Smiley has released his plan for taking back control from the RI Dept of Education (RIDE). The plan seeks to provide a roadmap for building a better public school system under city control. [...]

The Once and Future Thing

by Mark Binder

What do a junkman from Coney Island and a retired dentist on the East Side have to do with Art? Both were integral to the creation of Providence’s newest art locale, The Angell Street Galleries. Located at 324 Angell Street on Providence’s East Side, in [...]

Local Food System Hit by Federal Funding Cuts

by Abby Brennan

Federal funding slashes may make it harder for food-insecure residents of Providence to access fresh food – and harder for small-scale Providence farmers and fishers to earn a living. Since 2022, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA) [...]

“Why I March” — Rhode Islanders Share Personal Stakes at PVD’s Hands Off! Protest

by Maya Davis

Thousands gathered in downtown Providence on April 5, joining the Hands Off! protest, a coordinated day of demonstrations held across all 50 states in response to early policy actions under the new Trump administration. Community members gathered at Hope High School before marching to the [...]

ProvPort: One Piece in a Larger Puzzle

by Joshua Geaughan

The Port of Providence is the second largest deep-water port in New England and is an economic engine for the city. While cities in neighboring Massachusetts have Designated Port Areas (DPAs), the city of Providence does not own or control all the land in the [...]