Surviving members of the Little Rock Nine – Black students who were the first to desegregate schools and break the color barrier in Arkansas – said they are “as bewildered as they were ...

HII, the largest shipbuilder in the U.S., revealed on Wednesday, July 2, that Virginia-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 800) was ...

HII launched the Virginia-class submarine Arkansas into the James River for completion and testing. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Events throughout the weekend will be held to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine. On Friday morning, five of the former students continued to reflect on ...

Under the glare of an angry mob of white students, 1,200 armed soldiers, media cameras and pro-segregationist governor Orval Faubus, the Little Rock Nine made their way to Central High. The ...

On Sept. 25, 1957, nine black students had to be escorted by federal troops through an angry mob of white people as they walked toward the doors of a previously all-white high school in Little ...

The Little Rock School District is seeking public comment on a proposed School Board zone map which, once approved, will determine where the newly established seven board zones are and which ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Thelma Mothershed-Wair, a civil rights pioneer, was laid to rest this weekend. KATV was invited to attend the wake and ceremony of Mothershed-Wair, who died at the age of 83 ...

Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city of Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and ...

Wair was one of nine African-American students to enroll at Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The students were initially blocked from entering the school, but ultimately were able to ...