Top Arkansas Black Vitality Headlines
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK– July 7, 2026 – The Bezos Earth Fund announced today that Little Rock is among eight U.S. cities to receive a $100 million investment as part of its Greening America’s Cities initiative to fund community-designed parks, beautiful large-scale green spaces, and immersive outdoor areas. Funding will be distributed […]
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By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK– July 7, 2026 – The Bezos Earth Fund announced today that Little Rock is among eight U.S. cities to receive a $100 million investment as part of its Greening America’s Cities initiative to fund community-designed parks, beautiful large-scale green spaces, and immersive outdoor areas. Funding will be distributed […]
By The Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK – June 16, 2026 – Two former NFL running backs, one with local ties and another with a burgeoning social media and podcast following, will headline an upcoming “Barbershop Talk” on mental health, the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS) announced today. The UAMS Fay W. Boozman […]
By Leah Patterson, Rooted Resilience Strategies We’ve built an entire culture around supporting entrepreneurs. And yet still so many of them are exhausted. We tell them to push through, but we rarely stop to ask whether the systems that exist to support them are actually built to do that. Yes, it takes a certain drive […]
By Jeremy Hill, Arkansas Black Vitality Guest Columnist April 26, 2026 – It’s no secret that for far too long, our educator workforce has not reflected the diversity of our students. According to the Pew Research Center, only about 6–7% of teachers nationwide are Black. Of those, less than 2% are Black men. Here in […]
