Rhode Island’s Black business community gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick Friday morning to discuss closing the state’s prominent racial wealth gap.
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While defending the state’s contracting system, McKee officials are now asking how one of the complaining groups has spent public dollars the state allocated to it, which the group’s attorneys call “a deflection.”
Two organizations sent a letter to Rhode Island officials Monday, alleging minority- and women-owned businesses continue to be “overlooked and underutilized” in R.I. contracting system.