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 […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Three Body Problem
THREE BODY PROBLEM1 “…My resolution is fixed. I shall be free.” …at that moment he was free, at least in spirit. The future gleamed brightly before him, and his fetters […]
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, […]
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 […]
The Un-Making of Wombs & Worlds: Understanding the guilt and grief behind the “monstrous” survivals of Black and Indigenous women as a means of enacting their agency against coloniality’s capture
THE ABYSSAL WOMB, THE FETID WORLD OF COLONIALITY’S CAPTURE As the heavy sloshing of horses’ hooves grows ever closer, and the wailing of her child grows ever louder, she, an […]
Black Luv: Poetry
I dig you! Like the impassioned hands of a gard’ner surrendering to the earth. I fuxs with you! Like, the sugary, spicy blend of nutmeg and brown sugar in sweet […]
On The Cover: Afilandra Goncalves
“I want my art to give a feeling of mysteriousness, that you’ve peeked into a moment that maybe you weren’t supposed to see,” says Afilandra Goncalves of Providence, who created […]
It’s A Speculative Life: Black life in America as a study of speculative fiction
Wait, you cannot be serious. Who the hell do they think they’re talking to? For a moment, you don’t know how to respond. You’re too busy trying not to trip […]
Slamming Their Names Into History: Talking poetry & legacy with AS220’s Naffisatou Koulibaly
Amidst numerous up-and-coming open mics in Rhode Island, the Providence Poetry Slam (ProvSlam) remains one of the largest and longest-running slams in US history. Co-founded in 1992 by nationally renowned […]
Black in Rhode Island Map: Points of interest for Black History Month and beyond
Historic Sites Details Address 1. Sissieretta Jones Plaque Historical plaque honoring the great 19th century soprano. Read more about her here. 28 S Court St, PVD 2. Grace Church Cemetery […]