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Local activists at the Arkansas State Capitol joined the nationwide movement to protest the Trump administration
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Attorneys for the state are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Arkansas' ban on teaching "indoctrination" and Critical Race Theory.
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Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine who integrated an Arkansas school, has diedThelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city of Little Rock in 1957, has died at age 83.
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The exhibition explores the complicated history of how race is taught in Arkansas schools.
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Benjamin Victor is working on a clay model of the civil rights leader this week at UA Little Rock. Statues of Bates and singer Johnny Cash will eventually represent Arkansas in the U.S. Capitol.
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The public can watch work being done on the Bates statue, while approval has been given for the design of the Cash statue. Both will represent Arkansas in the U.S. Capitol.
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Ahead of an expected decision Monday, five artists who want the honor of making statues of civil rights leader Daisy Bates and music legend Johnny Cash showed models Wednesday of what their works would look like.
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Friday is the first observance of an Arkansas state holiday honoring publisher John H. Johnson. He created Ebony magazine in 1945 and Jet magazine in…
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The body of lawmaker and civil rights attorney John Walker will lie in state at Arkansas' capitol as part of his funeral arrangements this week.Secretary…
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Arkansas civil rights attorney and state lawmaker John Walker has died. He was 82. The Pulaski County Coroner’s Office says he died Monday at his home in…