This is the grave of James Berry. Born in Jackson County, Alabama in 1841, Berry moved to Arkansas when he was 7. His family were farmers who also opened a store when they got to Arkansas. Formal education was light for their kids. So I'm...
Arkansas
Arkansas continues to lead the laboratories of democracy: The majority-Republican House approved by a 60-19 vote a proposal allowing the creation of a “monument to the unborn” on the Capitol.
On September 30, 1919, a shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor.
I think we all know Bari Weiss and Thomas Chatterton Williams will be issuing public statements about free speech on criticizing Israel anytime now: At The Arkansas Times, a publication I founded 47 years ago, our pages focus on small-scale local issues, like protecting Medicaid...
Wow, it's almost as if privatizing public education leads to bad outcomes for less than ideal students (at least from the perspective of the charter industry). The Arkansas state legislature's.
The good people of Arkansas are making sure their kids get taught Real American history, by which they mean white supremacist narratives. Two bills introduced during the 2021 Arkansas legislative.
Monica Potts' columns from rural Arkansas are more useful than most of the "what is the white working class thinking" columns because she actually knows the region well and isn't just Beltway reporters finding blowhards in diners they can get good quotes from. People who...
On January 3, 1931, farmers converged on England, Arkansas to demand poverty relief. This led to Will Rogers' poverty tour and a greater national conversation about conditions in rural America.
I have not yet covered the Elaine Massacre in the This Day in Labor History series, but it's on the list. It's 100th anniversary was yesterday. 1919 was an atrocious.
One of the most pernicious parts of Civil War memory is how Confederate leaders became part of American iconography, literally in the case of the many statues placed around the South. In the U.S. Capitol, the Statuary Hall grants each state 2 statues to represent...
John Roberts, writing his decision in Shelby County: “There is no denying … that the conditions that originally justified these measures no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions.” Arkansas,.
I have no idea what goes on in Arkansas except for white people voting for Donald Trump. And I guess my contempt for them is why they vote Trump instead.