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糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Institute on Race and Ethnicity and Department of History, with support from the Mabel and Santo Formica Endowment, will present the world premiere of 鈥淒aisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock,鈥� a documentary that chronicles the life of the civil rights figure.

Members of the campus community are invited to add a favorite quote, poem, or other thoughts about racial and ethnic justice on a graffiti board on the upper concourse of the Donaghey Student Center Monday, Oct. 31, that will be displayed at an open house for 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 new Institute on Race and Ethnicity.

In light of the popularity of the best-selling book and film, 鈥淭he Help,鈥� 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Institute on Race and Ethnicity and Pyramid Art, Books, and Custom Framing are co-sponsoring a community discussion, 鈥淭he Help: Black and White Women鈥檚 Relationships: Past, Present, and Future,鈥� at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, at Pyramid at 1001 Wright Ave., Suite … ‘The Help’ Fans Discuss Black/White Relations

To mark the launch of 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Institute on Race and Ethnicity, the University History Institute鈥檚 鈥淓venings with History鈥� Lecture Series will present three themed talks this fall focused on the history of the African American freedom struggle in Arkansas. Lecturers will include faculty from the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Department of History.

Colleen Youngdahl, a third-year student at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston will be working at 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Institute on Race and Ethnicity this academic year, Director Adjoa Aiyetoro has announced.

The University of Arkansas Press has released a new book co-edited by 糖心Vlog传媒LR Donaghey Professor of History and Chair John A. Kirk on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee鈥檚 Arkansas project to integrate businesses, schools, and other public facilities in Arkansas.

Fifty years after the arrest of five Freedom Riders attempting to integrate interstate bus terminal facilities in Little Rock, 糖心Vlog传媒LR will host a day-long symposium on the 1960-era civil rights movement in Arkansas.

The Rev. Ben Elton Cox Sr., the veteran Freedom Rider who survived an Anniston, Ala., bus burning to lead four others on a Trailways bus ride to integrate travel facilities in Little Rock, has died 鈥� a month before the 50th anniversary of their ride.

The five young people aboard the Trailways bus traveling from St. Louis to New Orleans didn鈥檛 expect trouble when they rolled into Little Rock that hot, muggy day 50 years ago on Sunday, July 10.