History

Rhode Island has some history with the big game.

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Sports

Sports

It’s Super Bowl Weekend! Let’s Remember Some of Rhody’s Connections to This Football Spectacle

Way back in Super Bowl III, a Rhode Islander helped change pro football forever

February 7, 2025

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The border of Petersham and Barre, Massachusetts.

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History

History

‘A Vehicle of Genocide’: These Massachusetts Towns Were Founded on the Killing of Native Americans

February 5, 2025

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Andrew Botolino

At some schools, assemblies or gatherings are held to honor Black leaders, according to the nonpartisan organization the Center for Racial Justice in Education.

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History

History

Black History Month Explained: Its Origins, Celebrations and Myths

February 1, 2025

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A survivor stands after placing a candle to the Death Wall at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025.

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History

History

Auschwitz Memorial Holds Observances on the 80th Anniversary of the Death Camp’s Liberation

January 27, 2025

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Author Kate Winkler Dawson, at the former site of the Durfee Farm in Fall River, Mass.

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History

History

A Minister Was Acquitted of a Brutal 1832 Fall River Murder. A New Book Revisits the Case

January 27, 2025

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FILE - Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., speaks at an unveiling of a portrait of Martin Luther King by artist George Mandus on Feb. 18, 1974, while Gov. Jimmy Carter, right, looks on.

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History

History

The Long Struggle to Establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 20, 2025

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The Aochi family in the Rohwer, Arkansas, detention camp.

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History

History

The Irei Monument Honors Japanese Americans Imprisoned by the US Government During World War II

January 4, 2025

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Susan H. Kamei, USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Cultures

Exeter school campus circa 1942.

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History

History

Documentary on Ladd Center Reveals Abuse of Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled Individuals.

‘The beast is dead. Nazi Germany killed these people. Rhode Island made a commitment to treat them with dignity and respect’

December 23, 2024

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G. Wayne Miller

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The Shameful Stories of Environmental Injustices at Japanese American Incarceration Camps During WWII

December 7, 2024

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Connie Y. Chiang, Bowdoin College

Cape Verdean boys and men pose for a photo outside the Providence Boys club in 1930.

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Generation Rising

Generation Rising

Preserving Rhode Island’s Cape Verdean Legacy

Filmmaker and historian Claire Andrade-Watkins and her team are preserving the Cape Verdean legacy in Rhode Island through storytelling, community advocacy, and a groundbreaking project on the historic Sheldon Street Church

December 6, 2024

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