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'Little Rock Nine'

Chadwick Boseman and Seth McFarlane are working on a drama series about the Little Rock Nine

Carlotta Walls LaNier, one of the Little Rock Nine, wrote a memoir in 2009 about her experiences at Central High, "A Mighty Long Way: My Journey To Justice At Little Rock Central High," and the book serves as the series' basis.
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Melba Pattilo Beals bluntly fields questions about 1957 at Central High

Blunt talk from Melba Pattillo Beals, a memvber of the Little Rock Nine, in a Q&A session on Quora. No white classmates have ever apologized for mistreatment of the Nine, she says.
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LR Central at 70

The city of Little Rock has finished its "Reflections on Progress" observance of the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of Central High School and the people most affected managed to put well-placed asterisks on the notion that this was a story all about racial progress.

A glimpse of the "Little Rock Nine" opera at UCA

Composer Tania León and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. spoke last night to an enthusiastic and plentiful crowd at University of Central Arkansas's Reynolds Performance Hall last night, preceding the performance of four excerpts from León's in-progress opera "Little Rock Nine," with a libretto by scholar and playwright Thulani Davis. The performance and lectures were followed by a conversation with Gates and León, moderated by UCA's Dr. Donna Stephens.
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Marking 60 years since the school crisis. Praise for the Nine and calls to action.

The 60th anniversary of desegregation of Little Rock Central High School was lavishly recalled this morning with a ceremony featuring the eight surviving members of the Little Rock Nine, former President Bill Clinton, Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Mayor Mark Stodola and many other speakers.

Children of Little Rock Nine speak at panel

Rebecca Goodloe remembered not thinking too much of a blue book that held newspaper clippings and photos of her father, Terrence J. Roberts, desegregating Central High in 1957.
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Frank Frazier at Hearne Fine Art: Tribute to the Nine

Hearne Fine Art, 1001 Wright Ave., is featuring on social media every week an artist from its 29th anniversary exhibition, "XXIX Prime." This week's focus is Frank Frazier,

60th opens with panel of Little Rock Nine

Eight members of the Little Rock Nine, lacking the late Jefferson Thomas, gathered for a panel discussion at the Clinton School for Public Service this morning to open a weekend of activities marking the 60th anniversary of their desegregation of Central High School.
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Take yourself there: Mavis Staples coming to LR for Central High performance

Gospel and R&B singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples, who has been inspiring fans with gospel-inflected freedom songs like "I'll Take You There" and "March Up Freedom's Highway" and the poignant "Oh What a Feeling" will come to Little Rock for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of Central High.

Will state be back in court for aiding segregation?

The question lingers from Thursday's state Board of Education meeting at which the Board ignored federal court desegregation orders and allowed students to transfer out of Jacksonville and El Dorado school districts over objections of the districts.
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Gathering of presidents set Thursday in Little Rock

As reported here earlier, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will be joined in Little Rock Thursday afternoon by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the invitation-only graduation of the second class of 61 Presidential Leadership Scholars, a program of four presidential libraries.

The Little Rock Nine: Paying it forward

The Little Rock Nine Foundation has established a scholarship fund at the University of Arkansas School of Public Service.
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