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Throughout his lifetime Al White combined his love for jazz and photography to book and to promote world-class jazz musicians and to publish "Jazz Party," a superb jazz and photography collection.

The Streetcar Boycott of 1903, led by Black leaders in Little Rock, boycotted streetcars in Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Hot Springs leading to a 90% decrease in Black passengers in all three cities.

Explore Pine Bluff has commissioned a six-video docuseries unlocking the untold stories of "The Delta Rhythm & Bayous Cultural District." Monthly installations will examine slavery and Reconstruction, enslaved runaways, blues, cotton, cinema, and civil rights.

The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas April events will include A Cabaret Event, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Jazz Ensemble and volunteer night among other programs.

The year 2022 has been memorable for a lot of reasons, many of them not so fun. However, there is one thing to celebrate this year: The Enchanted Land of Lights & Legends, the annual holiday lights extravaganza, is still going strong.

Eldridge Cleaver, famed Black Panther and writer, had a Jefferson County connection. Who knew?

Before the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, cotton gins dumped millions of pounds of cotton seeds into nearby rivers. In the meantime, cotton seeds had been valued in the West Indies for over a century for their medicinal properties and their use as an oil in cattle feed and oil lamps.

Col. John M. Gracie was known throughout Arkansas and the world in the late 1800s and early 1900s for being the largest cotton plantation owner in the state. Intent on finding his own means of solving the plantation labor crisis brought about by the mass exodus of Black slaves from plantations throughout the South after the Emancipation Proclamation, Gracie visited Italy.

Amanda Beardsley Trulock is remembered for being an unconventional Arkansas woman of her time. She held nuanced conflicted views about slavery, politics and the Civil War that took place during her time.

Born almost two centuries ago, Wild Bill Hickok is still remembered as a great lawman and a feared gunslinger, sometimes with either foot firmly planted on opposite sides of the law. Pine Bluff even served as the setting for some of his colorful exploits.