May 114 minBasil Shabazz: The Measure of GreatnessBasil Shabazz, a Pine Bluff athletic phenom and all-around athlete, has served as a standard for greatness, first as athlete and now as a...
May 43 minThe Rich History of Pine Bluff Cotton Seed Oil CompaniesInitially thought of as waste from cotton production, in 1890 cotton seeds became a source of financial gain for Pine Bluff cotton...
Apr 203 minMartha Beall Mitchell: A Pine Bluff OriginalThis article is a reprint from the Explore Pine Bluff Blog due to anticipated interest in the upcoming Starz series Gaslit highlighting...
Apr 133 minAmanda Trulock: An Unconventional Arkansas Plantation OwnerAmanda Trulock is remembered for being an unconventional Arkansas woman of her time. She held nuanced conflicted views about slavery,...
Apr 65 minWild Bill Hickok: A Gunslinging Legend of the Wild WestBorn almost 2 centuries ago, Wild Bill Hickok is still remembered as a great lawman and a feared gunslinger, sometimes with either foot...
Mar 163 minMadam M. E. Hockenhull: A Pine Bluff Business Woman Ahead of Her TimeThis astute Pine Bluff entrepreneur owned a clothing store, beauty parlor, and beauty school all while designing women's attire,...
Mar 93 minRural Revolutionaries: 1918 Refusal by Black Pine Bluff Women to Pick CottonIn 1918, a group of black women banded together against Pine Bluff city officials to increase their meager wages and succeeded against...
Feb 163 minJohn Horse and the Black Seminoles: The Race to FreedomJohn Horse courageously led Seminoles and enslaved people to freedom from Florida to Mexico, even stopping in Pine Bluff. Image Credit:...
Feb 23 minDr. Carter G. Woodson & The Rich History of Black History MonthWoodson, the child of enslaved people, achieved much his parents couldn’t. He became a celebrated Black historian, was the second African...
Jan 264 minJ. Mayo “Ink” Williams: Pioneering Blues Record Producer from Pine BluffJ. 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...
Jan 194 minDr. Martin Luther King Jr. & AM&N College: A Historic Stop on His Civil Rights JourneyDr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 commencement address at Arkansas AM&N College inspired hundreds of students and gave the college the...
Aug 25, 20213 minWilkerson v. the State of ArkansasThis 1947 landmark case put an end to the practice of excluding African Americans from juries, which had been ongoing since Reconstruction.
Aug 18, 20213 minGetting to Know G.W. "Buddy" Turner, Jr.Grover White “Buddy” Turner, Jr. was an Arkansas legislator who influenced state policy from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Aug 11, 20213 minMeet C.C. Mercer, Jr.He was one of the Six Pioneers who helped integrate the University of Arkansas Law School, and key advisor to Daisy Bates.
Aug 4, 20213 minWinona Sammon: The Not-Quite-It GirlThis Pine Bluff native was supposed to be the next big thing in Hollywood in the 1920s, but things didn't turn out as planned.
Jul 28, 20213 minCleon Flowers: The Godfather of Arkansas MedicineDr. Cleon A. Flowers Sr. spent nearly six decades lovingly tending to patients.
Jul 21, 20213 minIrene Rosenzweig: Scholar and BenefactorIrene Rosenzweig excelled during an era when few women pursued lives outside the domestic sphere.
Jul 7, 20213 minDexter Harding’s Sawdust BridgeA silly superstition predating the Civil War once held the town of Pine Bluff hostage.
Jun 30, 20213 minRaye Jean Montague: A Real-Life Hidden FigureRaye Jean Montague was an American naval engineer credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship.
Jun 23, 20213 minM.D. Jordan: Shaping a GenerationMassathau D. Jordan, also known as M.D. Jordan was an educator, a leader, and a motivator for thousands of students at Merrill School.