Posts Tagged ‘racism’
Thank you… now let’s get to work.
by James Vincent, President, NAACP, Providence Branch The NAACP Providence Branch wishes to congratulate and thank both Black Lives Matter and the courageous students of Step Up RI for their powerful and effective protests over the past two weekends! The expressions of anti-racism are so needed if we are to survive as a society, and…
Read MoreA weekend of protest – and destruction – and the week ahead
Spurred by outrage over the death of George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, pressing his knee into his neck, while the crowd around them – and Floyd himself – cried out that he couldn’t breathe, has erupted the country into violence, coast to coast, over the past 3 nights. A protest…
Read MorePawtucket City Council: Resolution would condemn one member’s racist comments to another
At an informal gathering to celebrate the last meeting of the year in December, Pawtucket City Council member Mark Wildenhain, 2nd District, threw two one-dollar bills in the face of fellow City Council member Elena Vasquez, telling her to “take a bus back to Colombia” in front of several elected dignitaries and their guests. Vasquez,…
Read MoreSymbols of Hate: NAACP Speaks Out
By Jim Vincent, President, NAACP-Providence Branch The NAACP would like to thank the City of Providence for acting quickly and decisively when a noose was discovered and reported at the DPW on Monday. The alleged perpetrators were identified, and punishment was swift and sure with one individual being terminated and the other subject to a…
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