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The present (Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr.) Commission has never contacted PBICVR to ask, what can we do to help PBICVR or we want you to help on a project we want to do in Pine Bluff.
In June 2017, as the president of the Pine Bluff Faith Community Coalition Ministerial Alliance, we publicly endorsed Go Forward Pine Bluff, and the clergy's endorsement helped dominate the "No" vote by more than 2,000 votes. In May 2023, GFPB failed by a measly 117 votes without the clergy's public endorsement.
I have received a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the Martin Luther King Jr. Drum Major Community Service Award from Presidents Barack Obama and Donald J. Trump. A testament to my work in Pine Bluff appears in the U.S. House of Representatives Congressional Records and the United States National Archives. I have six letters from six U.S. presidents. The first Pine Bluff resident to speak at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and the University of Notre Dame Law School event, the first in Arkansas to receive the 400 Distinguished Award from the 400 Ye...