A three-judge panel for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas upheld Arkansas congressional redistricting on Friday, rejecting claims of racial discrimination in ...

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has refused to appoint a new member to the Arkansas Ethics Commission in protest of a ...

The NAACP in Arkansas is advocating for the reversal of Job Corps center closures, citing their importance in providing career training and life development resources for low-income and minority ...

Enactment of the Arkansas Rural Electrification Act Goes into Effect (May 25, 1936): ...

History always repeats itself, but what happens if you never learn your lesson the first time? As President Donald Trump continues his deportation mandate, many are concerned his disregard for court ...

Former NBA player Etan Thomas compared Chicago Sky star Angel Reese to a member of the "Little Rock Nine," as the WNBA ... Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation in public schools.

Little Rock, Arkansas' state capital ... the 1957 crisis to integrate the school − when Gov. Orval Faubus' pro-segregation resistance was met by President Dwight Eisenhower calling in the ...

When her school made an announcement asking if anyone wanted to attend Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957, she signed up. “That’s how easy it is to do things,” she said.

Thelma Mothershed-Wair, who has died aged 83, was one of the nine black students who in 1957 had to be escorted by the 101st Airborne Division through jeering mobs at Little Rock Central High ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Thelma Mothershed Wair, right, speaks at a news conference in Little Rock on Sept. 23, 2007. She’s joined by Carlotta Walls LaNier, from left, Terrence ...

The students desegregated Little Rock Central High School. Seventy years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ended racial segregation in public schools, members of ...

1954: The Supreme Court rules that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools violates the 14th ... Federal and state powers clash over the admittance of nine black students to Little Rock Central ...