PODCAST: Providence’s Missing Black Mayor
Friday, March 07, 2014
Not only has Providence never elected a black mayor, experts say voters have never had a strong candidate for the job.
"Rhode Island has a centuries-long history of the politics of self-interest, going back to the 19th Century and efforts by the Yankee WASP elite to prevent Catholic immigrants from voting," said Tom Frank, a reporter at USA Today who covered Providence for the Providence Journal in the early and mid-1990s.
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