Arkansas

On anniversary of Elaine race massacre, Arkansas community says reparations are due

October 8, 2021 By Karen Hilfman

Sept. 30, 2021, marked the 102nd anniversary of the 1919 Elaine Race Massacre in Arkansas.

Arkansas jail uses inmates to test fake COVID cure ivermectin

September 28, 2021 By Holly Dickson And Corene Kendrick

Last month, people detained in a Fayetteville, Arkansas jail became the unwitting subjects of an unsafe experiment—like many incarcerated people before them.

Is Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton the next Trump?

July 29, 2020 By C.J. Atkins

He bridges GOP factional divides, uniting the MAGA base with the big money of the Republican establishment—meaning he could be even more dangerous than Trump.

Oklahomans clean up after flood; Arkansans prepare for crest

June 3, 2019 By Adam Kealoha Causey And Hannah Grabenstein

Storm-weary residents in Oklahoma were gutting waterlogged homes Sunday as the Arkansas River continued its slow crest rolling hundreds of miles downstream.

Arkansas’ capital city elects black mayor for first time

December 5, 2018 By Andrew DeMillo

A banking executive and former highway commissioner became the first African-American elected to lead Arkansas’ capital six decades after it was the center of a school desegregation crisis.