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Arkansas Black Vitality Staff — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Heart Healthy Communities Project is partnering with researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) and Howard University to proactively engage historically marginalized and disadvantaged populations and provide crucial information and resources during public health crises. The goal of the project to improve the […]
By The Arkansas Black Vitality Staff – Little Rock-based High Street Equity Partners, Arkansas’s first Black-led venture capital firm, has received its second major investment that will go toward assisting underserved startups and tech firms seeking to scale up. On November 10, High Street announced an unspecified investment from Arkansas Capital Corp., the Little Rock […]
By Wesley Brown – Heightened by rising health inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control (CDC) earlier this year sounded the alarm to bring awareness to Black maternal health and childbearing. During Black Maternal Health Week on April 11-17, the CDC issued a public memo noting that 700 people died […]
A New Masterpiece By Dwain Hebda — There are many ways by which people mark their passage upon the earth. The arts are among the most powerful and to see that phrase in action one needs only to look at what’s going on in one of Arkansas’ most storied cities, Pine Bluff. Long a poster […]