Little Rock
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Episcopal Bishop Breaks Race, Gender Barriers
Bishop-elect Phoebe Roaf became the first woman and the first African American elected to lead the Episcopal Diocese of West…
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Little Rock Officials Weigh Renaming Confederate Boulevard
CLAUDIA LAUER, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Though only a short stretch of Little Rock’s Confederate Boulevard remains,…
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Obama Asks for $50 Million to Restore Civil Rights Sites
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights…
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State Board Votes to Take Over Little Rock School District
ALLEN REED, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Board of Education voted Wednesday to take control of…
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Are Little Rock Schools Finally Desegregated?
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer Five decades and $1 billion after an infamous racial episode made Little Rock, Ark., a…
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