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Rhode Island for Community & Justice is inviting people to attend a free preview screening at 5:30 tonight, at the Providence Black Repertory Company, of Traces of the Trade: A story from the Deep North , a locally filmed documentary. It tells the...
The thought-provoking Action Speaks! discussion series continues tonight at AS220, and I have a preview on the topic (the introduction of Prozac and the prospects it raised for freedom of the mind) here . In light of current events, however, next week...
The strong feelings that Rhode Islanders place in their public libraries explains the level of intensity around several years of controversy involving the Providence Public Library, the mothership for the state. Now, just in time for Banned Books Week...
Three years ago, the Phoenix's Steve Stycos reported on how police tactics threatened to put free speech and assembly rights on the line during the Democratic and Republican national conventions in Boston and New York. (Anyone who made it to Boston had...
