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SourceLine hasn’t updated Rhode Island’s local record yet. Coming soon. Federal and state are here now. What it shows today: members of Congress and the state legislature, and the Black community by the numbers for the state and every county. Until then, here is what Black newspapers in Rhode Island are reporting, and the national stories told with Rhode Island’s own numbers.
Rhode Island at a glance
Every ward, commission and district with its own page
Each page shows who represents it and how to reach them, recent public votes, and the numbers where they are measured. Not sure which is yours? Look up your address.
U.S. House districts 2
School districts 39
- West Bay Collaborative
- Lincoln School District
- Newport School District
- Warwick School District
- Coventry School District
- Cranston School District
- Johnston School District
- Scituate School District
- Tiverton School District
- Westerly School District
- Jamestown School District
- Pawtucket School District
- Barrington School District
- Cumberland School District
- Middletown School District
- Portsmouth School District
- Providence School District
- Smithfield School District
- Woonsocket School District
- Burrillville School District
- Narragansett School District
- New Shoreham School District
- West Warwick School District
- Central Falls School District
- East Greenwich School District
- Little Compton School District
- East Providence School District
- North Kingstown School District
- South Kingstown School District
- Chariho Regional School District
- North Providence School District
- North Smithfield School District
- Foster Elementary School District
- Northern Rhode Island Collaborative
- Glocester Elementary School District
- Bristol-Warren Regional School District
- Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program
- Foster-Glocester Regional School District
- Exeter-West Greenwich Regional School District
State Senate districts 38
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- State Senate District 38
State House districts 75
75 pages. Find yours by looking up your address.
Issues in Rhode Island
What matters most comes first: full stories, then decisions that keep coming back, divide the board, draw residents, change how land near you is used, or move big money for the size of the place. Open decisions come before decided ones.
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Stories for Rhode Island
Told with Rhode Island’s own numbers. Open one to go down to your county, city and address.
- 69,000 Black men lost federal jobs. Why didn't anyone count them?About 69,000 fewer Black men work federal jobs than in 2024. Their count beside Black women, where it hit hardest, and who can act.Read the story ›
- Black voters moved in 2026. What did it win, and what comes next?A record 124 million voted. About 9 in 10 Black voters backed House Democrats, and five Black governors won. State by state, and what comes next.Read the story ›
- How do we raise Black children's reading, state by state?In New Jersey 1 in 4 Black fourth graders read at Proficient; nationwide it is 1 in 6. Where reading is rising, who decides, and what you can do.Read the story ›
Sources are named in each story: Census Bureau business surveys, Bureau of Economic Analysis, USAspending.gov, USDA, and state records. Benefits and federal awards are separate measures and are never added together. Every story ›
Reported in Black newspapers in Rhode Island
No recent reporting from Black newspapers in Rhode Island is on file yet.