Only a week into her run as Arkansas governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is already doing the most. She has banned the word Latinx.
Bankroll Freddie has reportedly submitted a request to get back his jewelry, according to documents from the court. His legal team claims that since the 60-day deadline has expired after the property was seized during a traffic stop arrest in April, it should be returned.
A video showing three Arkansas police officers assaulting a suspect while detaining him has sparked a wave of outrage online, resulting in them being suspended. The incident also caught the attention of state Governor Asa Hutchinson, who stated that he spoke with the head of the Arkansas State Police about the pending investigation.
Never try it with a Black mother, and most especially don’t try it with one who is a veteran lawyer and respected elected official. Arkansas State Senator Stephanie Flowers caught the attention of the nation last week when she railed against the interruption of her Republican counterpart inside the chamber during a “Stand Your Ground” […]
Rep. French Hill is dealing with a public relations disaster as he attempts to win re-election to his U.S. Congress seat. A political ad that has been running in the state mocks Black women and threatens that white Democrats will begin lynching Black people again.
Employees at an Arkansas Waffle House were fired for doing hair in the kitchen last week, as customers watched. One patron actually recorded the employee dipping her braids in a pot, while another assisted.
This time last summer, Jonesboro, Ark. police were under fire for the case of Chavis Carter —a man authorities claimed shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a squad car– and now comes a similarly confusing officer-involved incident. A man, suspected of stealing a car was gunned down by Little Rock Police Department Officer […]
Arkansas Republican representative Jon Hubbard has ruffled the feathers of not only African-Americans and Democrats, but his fellow GOP members over statements made in his self published book from 2009, Letters To The Editor: Confessions Of A Frustrated Conservative. In his book, Hubbard states, “the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed […]
In the predominately White town of Wynne, Ark., an incident last week involving a 14-year-old African-American boy, who was reportedly hazed by fellow White junior varsity football players by placing a noose around his neck, has reached a fever pitch. With racial tensions high in the northeastern Arkansas town, the school board was dogged by […]
Former Hot Boys rapper Turk is nearing the end of his prison term and will mark his time behind bars by reaching another milestone: getting his high school diploma. The New Orleans native broke the news to All Hip Hop, that he completed his necessary courses while incarcerated at Forrest City in Arkansas. Turk, born […]
The Arkansas police officer who frisked Chavis Carter will be reprimanded for failing to properly search the young man, Jonesboro Police Chief Michael Yates said Tuesday (Aug. 28). Carter was handcuffed in the back of a squad car when authorities claim that he shot himself in the head. In a phone conversation with his girlfriend, he […]
More news in the shooting death of Chavis Carter may crumble the theory that he did not commit suicide. Carter was shot while in the back of an Arkansas police car in late July, and while the Jonesboro Police Department believes that he took his own life, family and friends beg to differ. On Wednesday […]
