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For those who don’t know much about Rhode Island usually have an idea of Newport as “a bastion for the nation’s white elite,” GBH’s arts and culture reporter James Bennett II said. But wealthy Black families shaped the city too. Here are their stories.
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For those who don’t know much about Rhode Island usually have an idea of Newport as “a bastion for the nation’s white elite,” GBH’s arts and culture reporter James Bennett II said. But wealthy Black families shaped the city too. Here are their stories.