Arkansas

Is Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton the next Trump?

July 29, 2020 By C.J. Atkins

He bridges GOP factional divides, uniting the MAGA base with the big money of the Republican establishment—meaning he could be even more dangerous than Trump.

Oklahomans clean up after flood; Arkansans prepare for crest

June 3, 2019 By Adam Kealoha Causey And Hannah Grabenstein

Storm-weary residents in Oklahoma were gutting waterlogged homes Sunday as the Arkansas River continued its slow crest rolling hundreds of miles downstream.

Arkansas’ capital city elects black mayor for first time

December 5, 2018 By Andrew DeMillo

A banking executive and former highway commissioner became the first African-American elected to lead Arkansas’ capital six decades after it was the center of a school desegregation crisis.

Organize the South! Arkansas workers make the case

October 24, 2017 By C.J. Atkins

When the AFL-CIO decided not to take up a call for a Southern organizing strategy at its convention, it passed over an important opportunity.

This week in history: Little Rock Central High School integrated

September 25, 2017 By Special to People’s World

A group of nine African-American students, enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was initially prevented by Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened with federal troops to accompany the...