Cover Stories

September 2019 will be the 100th anniversary of what has come to be known as the Elaine massacre in Eastern Arkansas’s Phillips County. A century ago, white posses and U.S. soldiers shot and killed what may have been hundreds of African Americans, most of them tenant farmers, over a period of four days. The black farmers’ crime: The men were unionizing to obtain fair prices for their cotton, and in some cases trying to buy their own farms.

Little Rock's Pettaway neighborhood, once plagued by gang activity, is amid a revival, thanks to incomers and novel construction. New residents say they want the area to remain as diverse as the architecture.

Suggestions from thinking people on how to improve life in Arkansas.

Listed by their hometowns.

They escaped from the Nahziryah Monastic Community in Marion County.

Meet the best and brightest high school seniors in the state.

With his Walk Against Fear 50 years ago.

A Q&A with the new executive director of Local First Arkansas.

They made the final round.

A Q&A with the Little Rock city director.

The city manager system and the collapse of racial moderation in Little Rock, 1955-1957.

It's become the Johnny Appleseed of Arkansas arts education.

Take shelter in an oddity.

Can the city's first elected black mayor heal the racial divisions that have long plagued the city's fire and police departments?

Spa City is swiftly becoming a polestar for pizza.

Our readers pick the best.

What's lost when we consider the history of racial violence from a white perspective.

Arkansas Times readers named it the "Best New" restaurant in Central Arkansas.

Arkansas Times readers named it the "Best New" restaurant in Central Arkansas.

Arkansas Times readers named it the "Best New" restaurant in Central Arkansas.