Category: News
By Arkansas Black Vitality May 19, 2025 – The pickleball craze is coming to Arkansas. Pickleball Kingdom, the world’s largest indoor pickleball entity, has announced that it will build its first facility in Arkansas, a state-of-the-art complex spanning approximately 30,000 square feet and featuring 11 professional-grade indoor courts. The new facility will be built at 2616 South […]
May 19, 2025 – Arkansas stands to lose over $1 billion in infrastructure funding to bring high-speed internet to rural areas across the state if the Trump administration has its way. According to the National Association of Counties, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) sent termination of funding letters on […]
Little Rock, Ark. – May 19, 2025 – Former Arkansas legislator Eddie Armstrong “soft-launched” the first episode of his new live podcast series on Monday, interviewing Rep. Lane Jean, R-Magnolia, the state’s longest-serving chair of the Joint Budget Committee in the Arkansas Legislature. The first “Stronger with Armstrong Podcast Live” was held and recorded in […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff BENTONVILLE, Ark. – May 8, 2025 – A new study by Heartland Forward, Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation reveals that Generation Z youth in the Midwest U.S. are embracing artificial intelligence (AI), but feel largely unprepared for an AI-driven future due to gaps in education and workplace policies. In […]