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In addition to its African American newspapers, Rhode Island is the site of another important advancement in the history of the Black press: when John Carter Minkins became editor-in-chief of the Providence News-Democrat in 1906, he was the first African American to head a daily newspaper that catered to the white community. [3]
History of slavery in Rhode Island (7 P) Pages in category "African-American history of Rhode Island" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The center of the African American community in Newport, as elsewhere, was the church. Newport's first African heritage church and congregation was chartered in 1824 as the Union Colored Congregational Church (49 Division Street), followed by Mount Zion AME Church in 1845 (1 Zion Place), Shiloh Baptist in 1869 (29 School Street) and Mount Olivet in 1897 (79 Thames Street).
The history of Rhode Island is an overview of the Colony of Rhode Island and ... there were 175 enslaved people in Rhode Island, including both native and Black ...
Rhode Island voters could make history Tuesday by electing the state’s first Black representative to Congress or return the seat last held by Republicans in the 1990s to a GOP candidate.
And the Smith case brought not just good news for one man and his family, said Stokes, a Black resident of Newport; it marked a watershed moment for the Black community in Newport.
Founded in 2017, RISHM was inspired by the late-20th-century urban blight of Newport, Rhode Island. As a child, executive director Charles Roberts played in God's Little Acre, an African and African American cemetery located within the Common Burying Ground, unaware of the significance of the space around him.
The 1930s saw the highest number of executions of any decade in U.S. history, and more than two-thirds of the convicts put to death were Black. ... a Black teen from Barrington, Rhode Island ...