We didn’t know that Frederick Douglass, the great Black abolitionist and orator, spent an enormous amount of time in Providence, advocating for an end to slavery, Black suffrage and a woman’s right to ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A new self-guided walking tour takes visitors through the city of Providence to see locations where black Rhode Islanders of the 17th and 19th centuries played a role in the ...
The Mapping Arts Project recently launched a digital map of Providence that marks locations relevant to African diasporic art history from the 1860s to the 1960s. The project was developed by Lara ...