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Our Executive Team

These persons have been duly elected by the Membership of the RHODE ISLAND GUARDIANS ASSOCIATION, to serve as their Executive Committee for the next two years. Committee Chairpersons are appointed by the President, with the advise of the General Membership.

President - John A'Vant
Vice President - Orlando Braxton
Secretary - Madison Michelle-LaPlante
Treasurer - Nina Bliss

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Today In History

May is Law Enforcement Appreciation Month

In 1914 - Birthdate of Joe Louis, boxing great
In 1862 - Robert Smalls and 12 fellow Afro-American seamen captured the Planter, a cotton steamer converted into a Confederate battleship. Smalls piloted the gunboat into Union lines and presented the ship to the U.S. Navy at Charleston Harbor. Smalls was promoted
In 1976 - In the second notable appointment of an Australian Aborigine, the 69-year-old pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls, has been chosen as the Governor of South Australia.
In 1852 - Nathaniel Wells, a former slave, plantation owner, and businessman who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries, was also the first person of African ancestry to become a High Sheriff in England.