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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Ellis CeDell Davis was one of the most resilient and uniquely talented blues artists to ever hail from Arkansas. Image Credit:...

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...

This astute Pine Bluff entrepreneur owned a clothing store, beauty parlor, and beauty school all while designing women's attire,...

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

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...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 commencement address at Arkansas AM&N College inspired hundreds of students and gave the college the...

This 1947 landmark case put an end to the practice of excluding African Americans from juries, which had been ongoing since Reconstruction.

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.

A silly superstition predating the Civil War once held the town of Pine Bluff hostage.

Raye Jean Montague was an American naval engineer credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship.