AltWeeklies Wire
When Louis Armstrong Blew His Topnew
Satchmo's reaction to the iconic photo of Elizabeth Eckford may have changed the course of the Central High Crisis.
Arkansas Times |
David Margolick |
09-28-2011 |
Race & Class
When it Comes to Arkansas Black History, Annie Abrams Has Just About Seen It Allnew
In an illustrated history of signal African-American events in the past half century, one person would be always in the picture: Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams.
Arkansas Times |
Leslie Newell Peacock |
02-25-2010 |
Race & Class
Pain -- and Possibility -- Arise as the Language of Race Decaysnew
The way out of this -- past notions of racial purity and beyond words like "multi-racial" and "other" -- need not be difficult. It will require us to recognize the faulted language we've inherited and consciously opt to ditch it.
Arkansas Times |
Mara Leveritt |
12-11-2008 |
Race & Class
Arkansas Nuns Recall Admitting Black Students in 1952 for DVD Projectnew
Before any other school in the state, as far as they know, the nuns of St. Scholastica monastery invited a couple of girls who'd recently graduated from an all-black Catholic grammar school to enroll in their previously all-white girls high school. Now Fort Smith Historical Society members are interviewing the surviving nuns from that era and preserving the interviews on DVD.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
09-05-2008 |
Race & Class
Slouching Towards Equalitynew
Looking back at the Little Rock Public Schools' desegregation crisis, 50 years later.
Arkansas Times |
Johanna Miller Lewis |
09-21-2007 |
Race & Class
Hate thy Neighbornew
A racist letter to a black neighbor in Arkansas becomes a federal case.
Arkansas Times |
John Williams |
07-19-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
