RI Black Heritage

Official twitter account for the RI Black Heritage Society, 1975. Our commitment rests in the living story of our strengths & passions, our dreams & success.

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

JOIN US ON THURSDAY, MARCH 13 at the Newport Art Museum for a special event that brings together a captivating lecture highlighting the stories of Newporters of African-heritage at 5:30. Along with a reception at 6:30 celebrating work by Edward Bannister and George Inness.
#RIBHS

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

In 18th-century Newport, Rhode Island, Pompey Stevens was an enslaved artisan who turned his chisel into a tool of remembrance. Trained as a master stone carver, he created intricate gravestones for fellow Africans at God’s Little Acre.

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

🚢Newport, Rhode Island—a picturesque colonial seaport with a dark past that history often overlooks. In the 18th century, Newport was the largest slave-trading hub in British North America, fueling the Triangle Trade and shaping an economy built on human suffering.

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

✨Black Churches Exhibit
📍 Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
📅 Open Now – July 30th
⏰ Monday – Sunday | 10 AM – 4 PM
📞 401-343-3620

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

Sharing this awesome event on behalf of Research BIPOC History. An immersive community art-making event, Ifé Franklin's Ancestor Slave Cabin Workshop. Making miniature cabin dwellings designed to honor the ancestral spirits.🔗Link in Bio

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

Explore Sacred Spaces: The Legacy of the Black Churches in Rhode Island. This powerful exhibit celebrates the African Heritage communities in RI, who built religious and service institutions that shaped their cultural and spiritual identity. 🙏🏾
Open Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

🌊⚓️Discover the untold story of how enslaved Africans in New England found freedom on the high seas!

In the 18th century, the ocean wasn't just a workplace—it was a gateway to freedom. Runaway slaves fled to ports like Newport, Rhode Island.

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

🌊✊🏾Discover the untold story of Paul Cuffe, a Black maritime hero who used the sea to battle slavery on two continents!

Born to an enslaved African father and Native American mother, Cuffe became one of the most influential Black shipowners of the 18th century.

[Keith Stokes @keithnpt]

New Sign Kiosk at God's Little Acre courtesy of the Newport Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission.

[Keith Stokes @keithnpt]

From our family collection. On this December 5th date in 1873, the Union Congreational Church hosts a fundraiser at the Newport Opera House. #GildedAge

[Keith Stokes @keithnpt]

On November 10th, 1780, at Newport, Rhode Island, the first Free African Union Society in America was organized. Unfortunately, too many, including the media, mistake slave history for Black history. Black history is how our ancestors survived and thrived despite enslavement.

[Senator Jack Reed @SenJackReed]

Ahoy! Here on the historic SSV Oliver Hazard Perry to deliver a $400,000 federal earmark w/ @SenWhitehouse to help @BlackHeritageRI launch its new youth educational program, promoting & fostering diverse leadership & scholarship for students across the Ocean State.

[Rhode Island @RITourism]

From now until June 30 celebrate African-American heritage with 'Gilded Age Newport in Color'.

Keith Stokes from @blackheritageRI shares how the exhibit honors African-Americans during the Gilded Age.

For more details, visit: https://t.co/QNyNB2RJ6f

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

NBC 10 I-Team: Changes coming to State House after voters changed state name in 2020 https://t.co/EHf8bxrtrx

#Black #BlackHistory #BlackhistoryMatters #RhodeIsland #RIBHS

[Rhode Island @RITourism]

From now until June 30 celebrates African-American heritage with 'Gilded Age Newport in Color'.

Historical Advisor and Historian Keith Stokes from @blackheritageRI shares how the exhibit honors the achievements and emergence of African-Americans.

Visit: https://t.co/QNyNB2RJ6f

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

For more information about this event visit the link below.
https://t.co/sVH7luG99t

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

Sailors aboard the USS Topeka, August 28, 1945. World War II Veteran, William Spencer DeCoursey (1914-1975), of Newport, is pictured, second from the right in the second row.

#RIBHS #BlackVeterans #Navy #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMatters #WWII

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

"George Araujo (1931-1997), pictured fighting Eddie Posey, was a Cape Verdean-American boxer from Fox Point, Providence. He fought Jimmy Carter for the world lightweight title in 1953 and retired in 1958 with a record of 58-9-1 with 33 KOs."
#RIBHS #BlackTwitter #blackhistory

[RI Black Heritage @blackheritageRI]

We extend our utmost appreciation to Dr. Jonathan Michael Square, Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design for his captivating presentation of "The Measure of a Man: Double Consciousness and the Fashioning of W.E.B. Du Bois," held on April 11, 2024.