A statue called "Grounded in the Stars" by the artist Thomas J Price is now appearing in New York City's Times Square. It depicts a generic Black woman with dour facial expression.

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Community conversation, “Changing relationships with organized religion,” 6:30 p.m., St. Barnabas Church, 110 W. North St.

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When white smoke finally appeared above the Sistine Chapel Thursday evening, seminarian Nathan Ledoux of Newport had a front row seat. He and several other Rhode Islanders currently studying in Rome ...

Robert Prevost, born in Chicago but having spent most of his adult life in Peru and Italy rather than stateside, is now Pope ...

Historian Ron Chernow's latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical ''Hamilton'' and for his biographies of George Washington and Ulysses Grant.

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On the 80th anniversary of peace, the Booker Prize-winning novelist probes the silence surrounding a generation’s experience ...