By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff Clarksdale, Miss. – March 19, 2026 – After the Trump administration put a funding freeze on trillions of dollars directed to federal assistance programs, new grant opportunities are now available due to favorable court rulings and the reopening of some programs that were put on pause. On Monday, the multistate […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff WILSON, Ark. – March 11, 2026 – A Boston-based private equity group that previously claimed to have invested over $4 billion in one of the largest solar and energy storage projects in the United States announced today that it is withdrawing from the decade-long project, located in northeast Arkansas. Swift […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Feb. 10, 2026 – Only months between securing the two largest multi-billion-dollar super-projects in the state’s history, Wall Street analysts and technology experts say the pipeline of new AI data center investments is just getting started, and the Natural State is positioned to see significant […]
By The Arkansas Black Vitality Staff LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – March 5, 2026 – The Arkansas Lottery has birthed another multimillionaire for the second time in less than four months, state lottery officials announced after Monday night’s winning jackpot. A jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth $250.8 million was sold in Arkansas for the March 2 drawing. […]