Basil Shabazz, a Pine Bluff athletic phenom and all-around athlete, has served as a standard for greatness, first as athlete and now as a...

Initially thought of as waste from cotton production, in 1890 cotton seeds became a source of financial gain for Pine Bluff cotton...

This article is a reprint from the Explore Pine Bluff Blog due to anticipated interest in the upcoming Starz series Gaslit highlighting...

Amanda Trulock is remembered for being an unconventional Arkansas woman of her time. She held nuanced conflicted views about slavery,...

Born almost 2 centuries ago, Wild Bill Hickok is still remembered as a great lawman and a feared gunslinger, sometimes with either foot...

This astute Pine Bluff entrepreneur owned a clothing store, beauty parlor, and beauty school all while designing women's attire,...

In 1918, a group of black women banded together against Pine Bluff city officials to increase their meager wages and succeeded against...

John Horse courageously led Seminoles and enslaved people to freedom from Florida to Mexico, even stopping in Pine Bluff. Image Credit:...

Woodson, the child of enslaved people, achieved much his parents couldn’t. He became a celebrated Black historian, was the second African...

J. Mayo “Ink” Williams not only goes down in the annals of history as a great professional athlete, but as a better blues and jazz record...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 commencement address at Arkansas AM&N College inspired hundreds of students and gave the college the...

This 1947 landmark case put an end to the practice of excluding African Americans from juries, which had been ongoing since Reconstruction.

Grover White “Buddy” Turner, Jr. was an Arkansas legislator who influenced state policy from the 1960s through the 1980s.

He was one of the Six Pioneers who helped integrate the University of Arkansas Law School, and key advisor to Daisy Bates.

This Pine Bluff native was supposed to be the next big thing in Hollywood in the 1920s, but things didn't turn out as planned.

Dr. Cleon A. Flowers Sr. spent nearly six decades lovingly tending to patients.

Irene Rosenzweig excelled during an era when few women pursued lives outside the domestic sphere.

A silly superstition predating the Civil War once held the town of Pine Bluff hostage.

Raye Jean Montague was an American naval engineer credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship.

Massathau D. Jordan, also known as M.D. Jordan was an educator, a leader, and a motivator for thousands of students at Merrill School.