Beth 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...
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Mar 9, 20223 min read
Rural Revolutionaries: 1918 Refusal by Black Pine Bluff Women to Pick Cotton
In 1918, a group of black women banded together against Pine Bluff city officials to increase their meager wages and succeeded against...
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Mar 2, 20223 min read
Lillian Rozell Messenger: A Prolific American Poet
Lillian Rozell Messenger made her mark in American literature throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just as women began to...
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Feb 16, 20223 min read
John Horse and the Black Seminoles: The Race to Freedom
John Horse courageously led Seminoles and enslaved people to freedom from Florida to Mexico, even stopping in Pine Bluff. Image Credit:...
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Feb 2, 20223 min read
Dr. Carter G. Woodson & The Rich History of Black History Month
Woodson, the child of enslaved people, achieved much his parents couldn’t. He became a celebrated Black historian, was the second African...
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Jan 26, 20224 min read
J. Mayo “Ink” Williams: Pioneering Blues Record Producer from Pine Bluff
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...
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Aug 18, 20213 min read
Getting 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.
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Aug 11, 20213 min read
Meet 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.
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Aug 4, 20213 min read
Winona Sammon: The Not-Quite-It Girl
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.
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Jul 28, 20213 min read
Cleon Flowers: The Godfather of Arkansas Medicine
Dr. Cleon A. Flowers Sr. spent nearly six decades lovingly tending to patients.
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Jul 21, 20213 min read
Irene Rosenzweig: Scholar and Benefactor
Irene Rosenzweig excelled during an era when few women pursued lives outside the domestic sphere.
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Jul 14, 20213 min read
Torii Hunter: Baseball All-Star
During his nineteen-year career, Pine Bluff native Torii Hunter was considered one of major league baseball’s biggest stars.
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Jul 7, 20213 min read
Dexter Harding’s Sawdust Bridge
A silly superstition predating the Civil War once held the town of Pine Bluff hostage.
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Jun 30, 20213 min read
Raye Jean Montague: A Real-Life Hidden Figure
Raye Jean Montague was an American naval engineer credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship.
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Jun 23, 20213 min read
M.D. Jordan: Shaping a Generation
Massathau D. Jordan, also known as M.D. Jordan was an educator, a leader, and a motivator for thousands of students at Merrill School.
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Jun 16, 20212 min read
Remembering Rev. Reuben Napoleon Chanay
Rev. Reuben Napoleon Chanay, who served as Merrill High’s principal in the 1940s and 1950s, helped move the school closer to its goals.
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Jun 9, 20213 min read
Meet Joseph Carter Corbin & Professor William Townsend
Two legendary principals at Merrill School, Joseph Carter Corbin and Professor William M. Townsend, inspired generations of students.
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May 26, 20213 min read
Merci, Antoine Barraque
This Frenchman established New Gascony, one of the earliest settlements in what is now Jefferson County.
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Apr 28, 20213 min read
The Life and Music of Art Porter, Sr.
Art Porter, Sr. was a prodigy, virtuoso, and entertainer who performed for Arkansas governors, U.S. presidents, and heads of state.
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Mar 17, 20213 min read
Celebrating Rev. Jesse Turner
A trailblazer, community activist, civil rights champion, and historian, Rev. Turner is a force for positive change.
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