Fourteen names will be added this week to the Arkansas Civil Rights Heritage Trail, a project of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Institute on Race and Ethnicity. Continue reading “14 plaques to be added to Arkansas Civil Rights Heritage Trail “
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Institute on Race and Ethnicity has announced the names of the honorees for the 2015 Arkansas Civil Rights Heritage Trail. This year’s theme is “Politics and Law” to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Continue reading “UALR institute announces 14 new Arkansas Civil Rights Heritage Trail honorees”
The UALR Institute on Race and Ethnicity and Mosaic Templars Cultural Center hosted Congressman John Lewis, who spoke to a packed house on Sunday, April 27. Continue reading “Congressman, former Freedom Rider, speaks to packed crowd”
Congressman John Lewis, one of America’s most iconic and prominent civil rights leaders, will be a featured author at this year’s Arkansas Literary Festival. Continue reading “Big Six Civil Rights Leader U.S. Rep John Lewis in Little Rock April 27”
The UALR Institute on Race and Ethnicity will host Dr. Ivory A. Toldson, deputy director for the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 20, in Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building. Continue reading “White House Deputy Director to discuss award-winning film Thursday”
The Association for Gravestone Studies will present the Oakley Certificate of Merit Award to University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor of history Dr. Johanna Miller Lewis, along with three other Arkansans on Thursday. Continue reading “Lewis to receive Oakley Award”
The first Diversity Council “Brown Bag Lunch and Learn” of the fall semester will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, in room G of the Donaghey Student Center. Continue reading “Diversity Council to address suicide among African American youth Oct. 31”
A viewing of the documentary “The House I Live In,” known as the “Drug War Movie,” will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, in the Student Services Center Auditorium at UALR. Continue reading “Watch Sundance winner, ‘Drug War Movie’”
Ozell Sutton, the first black newspaper reporter to work for a white-owned newspaper in Arkansas, will be honored for his role in the 1963 desegregation of downtown Little Rock businesses, along with 10 posthumous honorees at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. Continue reading “Business and civil rights leaders to be honored 50 years later”
Web work, photo shoots, historical research, community events, and graphic design are just some of the things UALR students got to do while interning at the Institute on Race and Ethnicity this summer. They explain what a taste of the “real world” was for like for them. Continue reading “My Summer as an Intern”