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$82K awarded to Central Arkansas Library System to support Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Check out this illustrated history of Louisiana’s first Black lieutenant governor, penned by UA Little...

1995: When even the thought of ‘Madam President’ was offensive.

Civil rights leader Julian Bond dies; Roy Reed pens New York Times obituary

Harrison KKK group to Memphis: give us the bones of Nathan Bedford Forrest

Columbus ship replicas docking in LR on Wednesday

This morning’s discussion on race at Ron Robinson Theater

‘America the Beautiful’: the back story

Friday event honors civil rights icon Bayard Rustin at Templars Center

New state historian chosen