Month: January 2025

A Truly High Society Redux: Congratulations Bri Duffy

On New Year’s Day 2025, Hey Rhody recognized 10 people as “Up and Coming Change Makers” in Rhode Island. The accomplishments of these individuals are impressive and legion. Change Maker contributions range from providing youth access to outdoor resources, promoting tourism, and enhancing women’s healthcare to changing negative cultural stigma about marijuana. What? Has a […]

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Cocktail Recipes

When talking about American bar culture, one cannot separate the intrinsic cultural influence of individuals of color. What are considered classic cocktails have deep roots in African American communities, dating back to post-slavery and the subsequent Great Migration. The communities formed in larger northern cities became epicenters of culture, where libations flowed freely until the […]

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Roots Report

Okee dokee folks… The internet is a vast resource of knowledge, opinion, and a lot of bullshit, but occasionally I come across tidbits that are profoundly stated and I feel that I must share them. One of my Facebook friends wrote this about musicians and I could not have said it better: “Singers, songwriters, and […]

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Album Review: J. Michael Graham- Stuck

On his first full-length release, Stuck, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and Rhode Island native J. Michael Graham showcases some stellar songwriting that explores the evolution of interpersonal relationships and finding the inner strength to move forward. With six songs and a run time of 20 minutes, the project is shorter than most full-length releases but […]

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Another Year of Film: Ann Clanton helps Black RI artists find their voices

Ann Clanton has spent two decades contributing to Rhode Island’s thriving journalistic and creative communities, providing support to the state’s African-American, AfroCaribbean and Afro-Latin filmmakers while running her own business, Ann Clanton Communications, as a consultant. Not only is she the founder of the Rhode Island Black Film Festival (RIBFF), an event designed to promote […]

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Oceanic Memory; Afrofuturist Reimagining: Exploring Black identity as a passage through literature and state

The Door of No Return, a powerful symbol of the Middle Passage and African diaspora, finds renewed meaning in contemporary Afrofuturist literature’s engagement with oceanic spaces and historical memory. As author Dionne Brand demonstrates in A Map to the Door of No Return, this threshold represents not just historical trauma, but also a complex site […]

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The Benefit of Crisis: An upcoming TedX Talk invites us to meet ourselves, wherever we are

5 minutes into talking with Claudia Cardozo, I’m taken aback by her overwhelmingly positive aura and calm presence. Claudia, originally from Colombia, is a corporate coach, who for the past couple of years has been working on the book that shares her story of self-acceptance. The book, Love is the Path, released officially in October, […]

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Ants in the City: Shelter as a right, not a privilege

“We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Over the last few weeks, the Providence […]

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