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...
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 303 minMarian Etiole Watson: A Paragon of Entertainment NewsMarian Etiole Watson has made a name for herself as an award-winning journalist and a household name among New York’s pop culture elite...
Mar 233 minBeth Brickell: Pine Bluff Entertainer Extraordinaire Beth Brickell made a huge and lasting impact on the entertainment industry, starring in television shows and movies, and going on to...
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...
Mar 23 minLillian Rozell Messenger: A Prolific American PoetLillian Rozell Messenger made her mark in American literature throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just as women began to...
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...
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 14, 20213 minTorii Hunter: Baseball All-StarDuring his nineteen-year career, Pine Bluff native Torii Hunter was considered one of major league baseball’s biggest stars.
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.