In 1958, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the commencement speech at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, known then as AM&N. The politics of King’s visit to a Black college in a Southern state in the dying days of Jim Crow fueled a funding battle that some believe set the campus back.| Arkansas Times
It was a bog standard August Monday morning — brighter than it was hot, but with an unmistakable promise of soul-melting heat to come — and The Observer was up and out the door before 7 a.m. It was the first day at Little Rock Central High School, and, as I’ve done every non-COVID year since 2012, I was taking my daughter to school.| Arkansas Times