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By The Arkansas Black Vitality staff – After serving in the interim post for more than a year, the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas on Nov. 16 selected Charles F. Robinson, Ph.D., as the next chancellor of the state’s flagship University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (UAF). Robinson will be the first Black […]
Kaiser Health News – The latest COVID-19 surge, caused by a shifting mix of quickly evolving omicron subvariants, appears to be waning, with cases and hospitalizations beginning to fall. Like past COVID-19 waves, this one will leave a lingering imprint in the form of long COVID, an ill-defined catchall term for a set of symptoms […]
Fresh chapter also begins in brand-new, $14 million headquarters by Wesley Brown – For Black people waiting on the Arkansas waiting list for a lifesaving heart, liver, kidney, pancreas or lung at the end of 2021, the chances of survival or getting an organ donation during the pandemic were becoming increasingly more difficult. However, the […]
By Dwain Hebda – A farmer’s family tree isn’t like most peoples’; it stops where the trunk breaks the earth’s surface and flattens out over acres and seasons and years. Over there, the parcel Grandpa bought during the Great Depression, wheat billowing in the sun. Closer by, the plats where Mom and Dad raised their […]