Category: Northwest Arkansas
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK – Sept. 15, 2026 – Gas prices in Arkansas are nearing $4 per gallon again, just as the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meets in Washington, D.C., for a two-day session to consider raising interest rates to curb rising inflation and price increases across the U.S. economy. […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff BENTONVILLE, Ark. – June 22, 2026 – Nearly two weeks before some Medicare recipients will be able to access so-called GLP-1 medications by paying one flat fee per month, the nation’s largest retailer announced a nationwide effort to help those same beneficiaries better understand new prescription drug coverage options for the […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK – June 18, 2026 – Forward Arkansas, the nonprofit group established in 2015 by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and Walton Family Foundation to improve educational outcomes for Arkansas students, announced today that it is expanding access to an innovative education model to five school districts statewide, bringing […]
Film narrated by Viola Davis to be followed by a discussion featuring national advocates, filmmakers and community leaders BENTONVILLE, Ark. – June 17, 2026 – The Bentonville Film Festival, in partnership with Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America and Walmart, will host a screening of “The Ebony Canal,” an internationally recognized documentary that recently won multiple […]