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The area premiere of Lydia Diamond’s comic drama ‘Stick Fly’ looks at a well-off Black family facing racial and emotional issues on Martha’s Vineyard.

With the regular legislative session starting today, Arkansas lobbyists and advocacy groups are expecting lawmakers to address issues that range from Medicaid reimbursement rates to farming lessons in elementary schools.

Arkansas Right to Life held their annual March to Life event on near the Capitol Sunday afternoon. Author: Jade Jackson Updated: 11:16 PM CDT March 14, 2021 LITTLE ROCK, Ark — Arkansas Right to Life held their annual March to Life event on near the Capitol Sunday afternoon. Its the 43rd annual march and it marked the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.  This years march was marked with more excitement following Gover...

Another anti-abortion bill: Mandated counseling for women seeking an abortion January 28, 202111:19 am A House committee today endorsed legislation that would require all women seeking an aborttion to first be told about resources to support them if they continue their pregnancy. Rep. Jim Dotson, sponsor of HB 1195, said it could discourage as many as a third of the roughly 3,000 abortions performed in Arkansas every year. Advertisement Arkansas previously adopted legislation to advertise the a...