This weekend was Newport Pride Weekend, and it was beautiful to see the celebration of our LGBTQ+ community. Thank you to Newport Out for doing such great work for our community.
The Newport Middle Passage Project held a presentation on the memorial design that will be installed at Liberty Square. The Newport Middle Passage Project seeks to honor and memorialize enslaved Africans and acknowledge Newport’s part in the Atlantic slave trade. The presentation was moving, and the memorial will be a powerful presence in our City. More presentations are coming through the summer, and I encourage you to attend.
A Council Workshop with the Middletown Town Council to discuss regionalization is currently being scheduled for July. This workshop comes out of my resolution at the May 25th Council meeting. There are also more public information sessions coming up in July.
Regrettably, I need to mention the travesty that is the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade this week. Here in Rhode Island, a person’s right to have an abortion is codified in state law thanks to the hard work of generations of advocates. If you are searching for a way to participate in the fight to make abortion safe and legal nationwide, this article outlines a few options.