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Some students and alumni feel frustrated that the UA System Board of Trustees voted to preserve the presence of J. William Fulbrights name and statue on campus this summer.

The hashtag #BlackatUARK began trending over a year ago as a way for Black students to share their experiences of racism on campus, but many feel little progress has been

A new interactive exhibit tells the story of a Black minister and former slave whose influence — from the pulpit to politics to business — stretched far beyond his home in Helena.

Univ. of Arkansas board backs plan to keep Fulbright statue July 28, 2021 GMT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a plan to keep a statue of the late Sen. J. William Fulbright on its flagship campus, despite calls to remove it because of his opposition to integration. The resolution approved Wednesday also called for keeping Fulbright’s name on the Fayetteville campus’s college of arts and sciences. Fulbright was a University of Arka...

Univ. of Arkansas system head: Fulbright statue should stay July 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The leader of the University of Arkansas system on Tuesday proposed keeping a statue of the late Sen. J. William Fulbright on its flagship campus but add “contextualization" about his legacy, despite calls to remove the monument because of Fulbrights support of segregation. System President Donald Bobbitt cited a new state law preventing the removal of historical monuments...

"Celebrate that history but to celebrate the complete story of the history not just things that we pick and choose to talk about." Joseph Steinmetz told lawmakers.

Last week commemorated the centennial of the race massacre in Tulsa, Okla., where a white mob attacked homes and businesses in the predominantly African American area known as Black Wall Street. Though a dark chapter in the American narrative, it was hardly an aberration. In 1919, America was embroiled in an unprecedented wave of racial terrorism that writer James Weldon Johnson coined as “Red Summer.” White mobs indiscriminately attacked African Americans across the nation, resulting...

UA Chancellor Joe Steinmetz proposed this month that J. William Fulbright’s name should remain on campus, while he recommended his statue be relocated from outside Old Main and Charles Brough’s

A UA faculty member's fight to have a voice in a departmental election was heard but dismissed by the Board of Trustees today.

University of Arkansas Chancellor Dr. Joseph Steinmetz supports the move to rename a main dining hall on the campus and relocate a statue of former U.S.