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    Barbara Hendricks: A Class Act
    • 1 day ago
    • 3 min

    Barbara Hendricks: A Class Act

    Barbara Hendricks is a world class opera singer from Arkansas who has garnered critical acclaim and performed in opera houses around the...
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    Why A Pine Bluff Field Trip Can Teach Kids More About Black History
    • 5 days ago
    • 3 min

    Why A Pine Bluff Field Trip Can Teach Kids More About Black History

    Image Credit: Trikosko, Marion S.. No changes were made to the image. Why A Pine Bluff Field Trip Can Teach Kids More About Black History...
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    Ellis CeDell Davis: A Unique Talent
    • Jun 15
    • 3 min

    Ellis CeDell Davis: A Unique Talent

    Ellis CeDell Davis was one of the most resilient and uniquely talented blues artists to ever hail from Arkansas. Image Credit:...
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    Amanda Trulock: An Unconventional Arkansas Plantation Owner
    • Apr 13
    • 3 min

    Amanda Trulock: An Unconventional Arkansas Plantation Owner

    Amanda Trulock is remembered for being an unconventional Arkansas woman of her time. She held nuanced conflicted views about slavery,...
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    Wild Bill Hickok: A Gunslinging Legend of the Wild West
    • Apr 6
    • 5 min

    Wild Bill Hickok: A Gunslinging Legend of the Wild West

    Born almost 2 centuries ago, Wild Bill Hickok is still remembered as a great lawman and a feared gunslinger, sometimes with either foot...
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    Marian Etiole Watson: A Paragon of Entertainment News
    • Mar 30
    • 3 min

    Marian Etiole Watson: A Paragon of Entertainment News

    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...
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    Beth Brickell: Pine Bluff Entertainer Extraordinaire
    • Mar 23
    • 3 min

    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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    Madam M. E. Hockenhull: A Pine Bluff Business Woman Ahead of Her Time
    • Mar 16
    • 3 min

    Madam M. E. Hockenhull: A Pine Bluff Business Woman Ahead of Her Time

    This astute Pine Bluff entrepreneur owned a clothing store, beauty parlor, and beauty school all while designing women's attire,...
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    Lillian Rozell Messenger: A Prolific American Poet
    • Mar 2
    • 3 min

    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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    Dr. Carter G. Woodson & The Rich History of Black History Month
    • Feb 2
    • 3 min

    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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    J. Mayo “Ink” Williams: Pioneering Blues Record Producer from Pine Bluff
    • Jan 26
    • 4 min

    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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    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & AM&N College: A Historic Stop on His Civil Rights Journey
    • Jan 19
    • 4 min

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & AM&N College: A Historic Stop on His Civil Rights Journey

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 commencement address at Arkansas AM&N College inspired hundreds of students and gave the college the...
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    Wilkerson v. the State of Arkansas
    • Aug 25, 2021
    • 3 min

    Wilkerson v. the State of Arkansas

    This 1947 landmark case put an end to the practice of excluding African Americans from juries, which had been ongoing since Reconstruction.
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    Meet C.C. Mercer, Jr.
    • Aug 11, 2021
    • 3 min

    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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    Winona Sammon: The Not-Quite-It Girl
    • Aug 4, 2021
    • 3 min

    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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    Cleon Flowers:  The Godfather of Arkansas Medicine
    • Jul 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    Cleon Flowers: The Godfather of Arkansas Medicine

    Dr. Cleon A. Flowers Sr. spent nearly six decades lovingly tending to patients.
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    Irene Rosenzweig: Scholar and Benefactor
    • Jul 21, 2021
    • 3 min

    Irene Rosenzweig: Scholar and Benefactor

    Irene Rosenzweig excelled during an era when few women pursued lives outside the domestic sphere.
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    Torii Hunter: Baseball All-Star
    • Jul 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    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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    Dexter Harding’s Sawdust Bridge
    • Jul 7, 2021
    • 3 min

    Dexter Harding’s Sawdust Bridge

    A silly superstition predating the Civil War once held the town of Pine Bluff hostage.
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    Raye Jean Montague: A Real-Life Hidden Figure
    • Jun 30, 2021
    • 3 min

    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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