Arkansas

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July 26, 2011
GAWKER - Kymberly Wimberly, an 18-year-old student in Arkansas, is suing McGehee Secondary School for allegedly not allowing her to…
May 27, 2011
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - The number of nonwhite coaches hired in women's college basketball has declined in the latest assessment…
March 2, 2011
VIDEO - Words of "HEIL HITLER," "WHITE POWER," and a swastika are drawn across his property, clearly visible to those…
February 17, 2011
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee compared abortion to slavery while speaking at a fundraiser for an anti-abortion group on Monday…
January 28, 2011
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Fred Smith announced his resignation after a judge found him guilty of theft of property…
January 6, 2011
CLUTCH - Tiny is taking her "ride-or-die" role just a little too far. Two months into T.I.'s 11-month prison sentence…
December 8, 2010
"But we wanted him to help market and promote it. That would have been nice....
November 26, 2010
OPINION - Philander Smith is a small historically black college in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was pretty known for being…
November 2, 2010
FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) - Last month, a federal judge sentenced him to serve another 11 months in prison for…
September 6, 2010
theGRIO Q & A - Minnijean Brown Trickey remembers how her former Central High classmate's sense of humor got them…
September 6, 2010
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Jefferson Thomas, one of the first nine black students to enroll in desegregated Arkansas' schools,…
August 29, 2010
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered a fiery sermon Sunday at the New Millennium Church in…
June 10, 2010
Arkansas still has not elected a black candidate to Congress, but the black vote mattered in this year's primary race...
June 7, 2010
WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) - The race, which remains neck-and-neck, is seen as an important test of what kind of…
June 2, 2010
In a state that has a significant black population but only white representatives in Congress, next week's runoff has racial…
May 18, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Intensely competitive Senate primary races in three states will test the durability of incumbent Democrats the strength…
April 19, 2010
VIDEO - An Arkansas circuit court judge has declared Arkansas' unmarried couples adoption and foster law unconstitutional...
December 22, 2009
"The king's baaaaack!" That's the latest catch phrase buzzing through Atlanta as news is spreading that T.I. has been released…
November 23, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Every day before heading to Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957,…
November 13, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Curtis Lavelle Vance, 29, escaped a death sentence. He faces life in prison without parole…