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Faulty history: A historian’s critique of a new documentary on the Elaine Massacre

One can demand a better tomorrow without distorting the historical record to manufacture a better yesterday.
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Pachuqísmo flips the script on the Zoot Suit Riots this week in Conway

The Pachuquísmo troupe’s nine-woman cast lands in full zoot suit attire in Conway this week with a show that blends jazz, tap and Mexican Zapateado movement to tell the story of Mexican-American youth, “pulling the narrative of the Zoot Suit Riots,” a show description reads, “out of the male-centered context to portray the experiences of las pachucas of the 1940s through movement, spoken word and video.”
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A rare silk booklet of antique Japanese tattoo art has a mysterious Little Rock connection

Somehow, a singularly rare specimen of antique Japanese tattoo flash made its way into the hands of a working-class Arkansan who never traveled much of anywhere. Now, its contents have been reproduced meticulously in a new book called “Floating West,” shining light on a sparsely documented era of the inky art form. 

$82K awarded to Central Arkansas Library System to support Encyclopedia of Arkansas

The National Endowment for the Humanities designates $82,474 to Central Arkansas Library System to support Encyclopedia of Arkansas, an extensive online repository for all things Arkansas — from Annie Abrams to Zero Mountain.
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Check out this illustrated history of Louisiana's first Black lieutenant governor, penned by UA Little Rock prof Brian Mitchell

Mitchell worked with editor Nick Weldon and illustrator Barrington Edwards on the book, which follows Dunn as he was born into slavery, emancipated at age 10, elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana in 1868 and died mysteriously in 1873, just as he was poised to become Louisiana's first Black governor.

1995: When even the thought of 'Madam President' was offensive.

Following Hillary Clinton's historic selection as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party last night in Philadelphia, Jezebel.com makes note of just how far we've come: a 1995 story in which discount behemoth Walmart pulled t-shirts from their stores because they featured the words "Someday, a woman will will be PRESIDENT!"
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Civil rights leader Julian Bond dies; Roy Reed pens New York Times obituary

Civil rights lion Julian Bond, one of the original leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, has died at 75.

Harrison KKK group to Memphis: give us the bones of Nathan Bedford Forrest

The Southern Poverty Law center reports that a Ku Klux Klan faction based in Harrison has offered to pay to move the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest — who served as the first Grand Wizard of the KKK — from a Memphis park to property the group owns in Harrison.
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Columbus ship replicas docking in LR on Wednesday

Accurate replicas of the Nina and Pinta, two of the three ships Christoper Columbus sailed over the ocean blue back in 1492, will be docking in Little Rock's Julius Breckling Riverfront Park on Wednesday afternoon. They'll be open for tours from Thursday, Oct. 9, until their departure on Tuesday, Oct. 21.

This morning's discussion on race at Ron Robinson Theater

Interesting panel discussion this morning on race and ethnicity at the River Market's Ron Robinson Theater in the River Market. The discussion, titled "Money, Class and Opportunity," was held in conjunction with the release of UALR's 11th installment of their survey of racial attitudes in Pulaski County. The panel was moderated by State Sen. Joyce Elliott, with Maria Elena de Avila of the Arkansas Department of Career Education; State Rep. Fred Love; Heather Larkin, president and CEO of the Arkansas Community Foundation; Carmen Parks of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Terry Richard-Trevino of the League of Latin American Citizen and the UALR Dept of Anthropology and Sociology and State Rep. Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp. Topics up for discussion by the panel were wide ranging, from neighborhood blight to nutrition to the largely re-segregated state of some Little Rock schools. At one point, during a discussion on "It's almost a sport now to blame people for being poor...
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'America the Beautiful': the back story

One of the most amusing angles to the conservative outrage at the feel-good Coca-Cola Super Bowl commercial in which "American the Beautiful" is sung in foreign tongues (and by a gay couple) is the biography of Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote the song.

Friday event honors civil rights icon Bayard Rustin at Templars Center

Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington and one of the unsung heroes of the civil rights movement of the 1950's and '60's — largely whitewashed from history because he was openly gay — will be celebrated at a free event on Friday evening at Little Rock's Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, "Champions of Justice: Celebrating the Life and Times of Bayard Rustin."
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