Angel Taveras is an attorney and in 2011 made Rhode Island Latino history when he became the first Latino mayor in Rhode Island. Taveras also became the third elected and fourth serving Dominican-American mayor in the United States.
Three years after her passing, Marta V. Martinez looks back on her friendship with Juanita Sanchez. She speaks on her significance in the Rhode Island Hispanic community, her personality, and her legacy.
Painters Tony Aristy and Elvis Avilés showcase their work at the RISD Museum. Both artists are from the Dominican Republic and studied fine arts in their home country before coming to Rhode Island to work.
The Public's Radio spoke with Rhode Island Latino Arts director Marta Martínez, who helped to facilitate the project, as well as René Gómez, the artist who designed and painted the mural
Sabina Matos ran for and won, Lt. Governer as the first Afro-Latina to serve in statewide public office in Rhode Island in 2022, and the first Dominican-American to hold state-wide office in the United States.
These are photos of Sabina Matos, City Councilwoman of Ward 15 in 2010, first Latina City Council Chair in Providence, RI in 2015, and first Dominican American and Latina appointed as Rhode Island Lt. Governor in 2021.
Senator Juan Manuel Pichardo was the first Dominican American and Latino elected to the Rhode Island Senate, in 2002. He represented the people of Providence, Rhode Island's Senate District 2.
Rep. Grace Diaz (D) is the first elected Dominican-American woman to a state legislature seat in the U.S. She has represented the people of District 11 in Providence since November 2004.
Bienvenido Garcia Bienvenido was a social worker and a program manager at the Urban League of RI, a founding member of both Club Juan Pablo Durarte and the Dominican-American Association of RI
Angel Taveras was elected 2011 as the first Latino and Dominican American mayor in the City of Providence, RI and in the U.S. In 2000 he was unsuccessful candidate for the 2nd Congressional District.
Josefina "Doña Fefa" Rosario, born in the Dominican Republic in 1928, immigrated to Providence in around 1959 and later opened the first bodega in Rhode Island. She was known as the "mother" of the Rhode Island Latino community.
Obituary of Gladys Argentina Diaz Lara Cok, who was originally from the Dominican Republic and was the former program director for the School of Medical Technology at St. Joseph's Hospital in Providence.
This is an interview with Marta V. Martínez, Executive Director, and Juanita Sánchez, Chair of the Hispanic Social Services Association (HSSA) of Rhode Island.
This special edition celebrated the 350th anniversary of Rhode Island by telling its history through the story of its immigrants, including Alido Baldera who immigrated from the Dominican Republic in 1971 and is featured in part nine of this piece.
Victor Mendoza was co-founder of the Coalition of Hispanic Organizations (Coalición Hispana) in Rhode Island in 1984 and the first Latin-American festival in Rhode Island in 1979 called the Latin American Festival of Music.
This is a fresco located at the Juanita Sánchez Educational Complex, named in memory of a community activist, health care outreach worker during the 1970s and 1980s, and Chair of the Hispanic Social Services Association.
