In this Q&A series, we invite the community to reflect on living in a divided city. We sit down with Nelson Harris, whose ...

LaNier dedicated this book to her two grandchildren, and said she wanted children to understand the history of the Little ...

While America is celebrating its 250th anniversary, Roanoke is remembering Virginia Lee, a librarian whose protection of Black literature helped sustain Roanoke’s community through segregation and ...

Carlotta Walls LaNier, a member of the historic Little Rock Nine, is sharing her journey through a children's book aimed at educating young readers on civil rights.

Lawmakers gathered in the Capitol for the unveiling of a bronze statue honoring teenage civil rights activist Barbara Rose ...

Members of the College of Arts and Sciences are dedicated artists, scholars, scientists and professionals who will continue to create, lead, invent and mentor others. Our college offers a diverse ...

In 1960 the University of Arkansas counted maybe twenty Black students -- men and women together filling a single dormitory wing. Social conscience was barely stirring then; Vietnam, the Pill, and the ...

ABSTRACT: Jim Crow and apartheid are two examples of systems that have extensively propagated differential oppression among the echelons of humanity. Apartheid laws in South Africa and Jim Crow laws ...

Along with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture, Rosa Parks is one of the celebrated names of the civil rights movement: the Montgomery, Alabama woman who refused to move from her seat ...