Tag: Department of Defense
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff EAST CAMDEN, Ark. — Feb. 27, 2026 — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit Camden on Friday as part of his nationwide “Arsenal of Freedom” tour, with planned stops at defense contractors General Dynamics and L3 Harris at the Highland Industrial Park in East Camden. During […]
By The Arkansas Delta Informer Staff EAST CAMDEN, Ark. – Feb. 21, 2026 –The wins keep coming for L3Harris Technologies and other defense contractors at south Arkansas’s Highland Park industrial complex, further solidifying the 19,000-acre site as a key hub in the Pentagon’s ongoing “Arsenal of Freedom” expansion funded by the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion defense budget. Earlier this […]
The Trump administration’s recent DEI purge at the Department of Defense sought to erase Jackie Robinson’s stint in 761st Battalion, where he faced court-martial for segregated bus incident By Arkansas Black Vitality April 27, 1945 – In the Trump administration’s rush to purge all traces of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the Department of […]
