Category: Business
By Arkansas Black Vitality May 7, 2025— The Arkansas Black Mayors Association (ABMA) was recently awarded a $250,000 Urban & Community Forestry grant to plant 1,200 trees at community gathering spaces and public schools across five counties in the Arkansas Delta. The grant was awarded by the Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Forestry Division and the […]
New appointee, Joyce Randle, tabbed for chief of staff role By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff May 6, 2025 – Mayor Frank Scott Jr. announced Monday (May 5) that his longtime chief of staff and top advisor has stepped down after more than six years with the city’s first duly elected Black mayor. According to the mayor’s office, […]
By Wesley Brown – President Donald J. Trump moved forward with a campaign promise to end funding for the National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), a goal also shared by Republican lawmakers in Arkansas attempting to do the same. At the end of a week where he celebrated his first 100 […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality April 27, 2025 – Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration will give debt collectors back the power to pursue millions of Americans who have defaulted on student loans. In a strongly worded announcement on Monday (April 21), the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) said its […]