Bobby "El Charro Negro" Butler was the first African American to become an award winning Tejano singer. Image Credit:...

Sippie Wallace, an exceptional blues singer, musician, and Arkansas native, is celebrated among the earliest blues greats such as Bessie...

Despite multiple organizational changes, Reverend Lucey’s groundbreaking school, the Colored Industrial Institute, lasted more than 120...

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...

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...

Marian Etiole Watson has made a name for herself as an award-winning journalist and a household name among New York’s pop culture elite...

Beth Brickell made a huge and lasting impact on the entertainment industry, starring in television shows and movies, and going on to...

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

Lillian Rozell Messenger made her mark in American literature throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just as women began to...

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...

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.

During his nineteen-year career, Pine Bluff native Torii Hunter was considered one of major league baseball’s biggest stars.