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Afternoon to go against conventional etiquette. I want you to take out your phones yes, really do. Put them on vibrate. I want you to tweet, facebook, post, take instagram photos, share this speech with your social network. My daughter tells me this is called live tweeting. [laughter] social change, revolutions have been brought on by tweets or facebook posts. As agents of change i want you to inspire your network of friends. When you feel inspired and moved by anything that happened today. I wa...

And share this speech with your social network. My daughter tells me this is something called live tweeting. [laughter] i know social change and revolutions have been brought on by tweets or facebook posts. As agents of change, i want you to inspire your network of friends. And when you feel inspired and moved by anything that happened today. I want to thank the organization ethnic fairness in the courts for the 25th anniversary. This is work that has been going on for a long while. Four years a...

To our mayor, the city manager, bruce moore, the city board of directors of little rock, to skip rutherford, to the 60th anniversary committee, and for most of all, the little rock nine and their families. We welcome you to the 60th Educational Forum for the city of little rock and the state of arkansas. We thank you for being here and we hope something is said or done that will give you a better understanding when you leave here today and let me digress for a minute, and say that the naacp was ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The University of Arkansas has its first Black chancellor, but just 76 years ago he wouldn’t have been able to attend the school he heads. Dr. Charles Robinson became the university’s seventh chancellor in November 2022 after he served in an interim capacity for 15 months. “I am the chancellor of […]

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Six of nine defendants indicted in 2019 as part of a drug trafficking ring operating in and around central and southeast Arkansas were sentenced Friday in federal court in a series of sessions held in the "era faithful" replica 1957 courtroom where the first phase of restoration has been completed.

Thurgood Marshall talks with Elizabeth Eckford, 15, in the corridor of the federal courthouse at Little Rock Sept. 7, 1957, on the day of a hearing on the

A piece of history that sat for decades in a small federal courtroom in Little Rock is being restored with plans for it to become a living history exhibit for its role in the desegregation of Little Rock schools.

During the 65th anniversary commemoration of the Little Rock Nine crisis, 40 students and a few adult sponsors from Pine Bluff High School and Dollarway High School had the opportunity to meet individual members of the Little Rock Nine.

When a person is born, can anyone have any idea what future challenges -- or greatness -- lie ahead? When Christopher Mercer was born in 1924 in Pine Bluff, could anyone have seen where fate might take him?