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The oldest community bank in the U.S. agreed last week to pay $9 million to settle claims that it discriminated against Black and Hispanic Rhode Island residents who sought mortgages. For at least six years dating back to 2016, during its expansion throughout Rhode Island, Washington Trust Co. allegedly redlined, turning away lenders from majority-Black […]
FILE – Residents, landowners and supporters of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island fill a courtroom, Sept. 12, 2023, in Darien, Ga. Two weeks after local officials weakened restrictions that for decades protected the tiny Georgia island community populated by the descendants of enslaved people, its Black residents hope to force a vote that […]
President Joe Biden will host a second summit with Pacific island leaders this week, part of a U.S. charm offensive to block further Chinese inroads into a strategic region Washington has long considered its own backyard. During the three-day meeting, the U.S. will announce diplomatic recognition for two Pacific islands, promise new money for infrastructure, […]
RESIDENTS in a unique island community have spoken out as they battle zoning changes that could force them off their land. Black residents of the Hogg Hummock community on Georgia’s Sapelo Island have spoken out to oppose zoning changes that could threaten their land. Black residents of the Hogg Hummock community on Georgia’s Sapelo Island have spoken out to […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders is in the Ocean State today, in support of Rhode Island 1st Congressional District candidate Aaron Regunberg. Regunberg is one of 12 Democrats vying for the nomination to succeed David Cicilline. Meet the candidates: Rhode Island Congressional District 1 The event . . .
MIAMI (AP) – A 64-year-old man whose sailboat became disabled spent three days stranded on an island in the Bahamas before the U.S. Coast Guard spotted a flare he fired and rescued him, the Coast Guard said. The crew of a Coast Guard Air Station Miami aircraft dropped food, water and a radio to communicate […]
“God’s Little Acre” in the Newport Common Burying Ground. (Photo courtesy of Keith Stokes) Since 1985, countries around the world have observed Aug. 1 as international Emancipation Day. The date marks the day when slaves throughout the British empire were liberated on Aug. 1, 1834. Though Juneteenth celebrations have largely eclipsed the date in the […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement late Saturday […]
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: Sam Bankman-Fried’s younger brother, who was a top lobbyist for failed crypto exchange FTX, considered purchasing the island nation of Nauru in the Pacific to create a fortified apocalypse bunker state, a lawsuit filed in Delaware bankruptcy court shows. Gabe Bankman-Fried was looking at buying Nauru in […]
The makers of Love Island are being sued of allegations that female contestants are being ‘pressured to have sex and black contestants are being mistreated’ on the US version of the show. The claims made against ITV and NBCUniversal – the producers of