Feb. events include the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry reading, and a free PPAC program celebrating musician and activist Randall Ashe.

The name of the Northern Rhode Island city is pronounced "woon-SOCK-it," but the key is not drawing out the first syllable for too long — it should sound almost like "won." Trying to pronounce ...

Rhode Island's independent streak – it was the only state to reject ratification of the 18th Amendment banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol in 1920 – dates back to its 17th century ...