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Rhode Island votes to change state’s controversial official name

Rhode Island is no longer the “smallest state with the longest name.” Voters in the Ocean State, formerly known as “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” approved a ballot measure to remove “and Providence Plantations” from the state’s official name. The referendum was introduced in the state senate by Rhode Island’s sole Black senator, Harold Metts,…
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