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Despite my love for my home state, Rhode Islanders tend to get a bad rep. We’re not from New York and we’re not from Boston. We’re from that teeny tiny state everyone finds a reason to poke fun at.

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The United States is known both home and away as the “land of opportunity.” But the ideology of the American Dream extends far beyond the country’s borders.

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There is a positive side and a negative side and I would be remiss to pretend that being black is all glitter and gold, because it’s not.