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Until recently, a set of drums that longtime local musician and festival founder Bryan Hembree describes as “the most important drum kit in American music” sat in a barn in Fayetteville, unused and largely forgotten. The setup is a personalized assembly built around a Ludwig badge-style kit from...

By Wesley Brown, Arkansas Black Vitality Editor July 13, 2026 – As the U.S. venture...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – A World War II veteran and Tuskegee Airman celebrated a big milestone over the weekend – his 106th birthday. Thomas Vaughns was surrounded by friends and family in Little Rock, Arkansas, for the occasion on July 11. Vaughns served in World War II...

Met: James Cole remembers the exact moment he saw his wife, Jalentha, for the first time on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas on September 13, 2005. “I saw her in the student center, and it just so happened to be her birthday,” he said. “I saw her showing her shoes to one of her friends. One of her frien

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The Arkansas Travelers has a weekend of events stacked for their Reopening Day at the Dickey-Stevens Park.

Medicaid’s administrative processes often are a bigger barrier to beneficiaries receiving services than program eligibility issues, focus groups convened by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families said. Investing in navigators and improving communication can help address those issues. Those were some of the takeaw

Important Arkansas historical events and significant anniversaries for July 14, with notable births and deaths of people with Arkansas connections for this date. Information is drawn from state archives, historical societies, contemporary newspapers and other media archives, and legal records. Much of this information

Arkansas summers don’t ease in gently. They arrive with heat that presses down on lawns and turns fussy landscaping into a chore nobody wants. That’s where Ozark natives change the equation. These plants grew up here, through drought years, clay soil, and afternoons that hit triple digits, so none of that fazes them.

A walk in Arkansas can change character faster than you expect. The trail may begin with birds overhead and leaves shifting underfoot, then suddenly lead straight into a story that started centuries ago. Old mining remains stand beside the woods. Ancient markings survive beneath broad rock shelters. Quiet fields once..