Newly released data shows white families are most likely to cash in on Arkansas' school vouchers, while Black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in the program. Are taxpayer-funded vouchers bankrolling a new era of segregation in schools?
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In “Out the E,” Arkansas photographer Harlan Bozeman considers the legacy of the Elaine Massacre of 1919 while prioritizing the lives of the Delta town’s present-day inhabitants.

“It’s outside our home, though, where I feel him most readily.”

From the Home Makers series, OA Associate Editor @fmckindra.bsky.social moves through the Arkansas spaces his father loved in life, processing his grief along the way.

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I spoke to the @oxfordamerican.bsky.social about my personal Southern displacement for their “Home” issue, as well as using sports to tell stories folks don’t want to hear. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/throu...

“Maybe to distract myself from the question of loneliness, I’m working to chart the depths of my ride with Mister Anthony.”

@theferocity.bsky.social considers a conversation he had with his Lyft driver, Mister Anthony, where they discuss a shared pull to New Orleans.

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A queer men’s group in Arkansas is building a social network beyond the transactional world of dating apps.

White heteronormativity has long dominated the University of Arkansas. What does that mean for Black gay Arkansans?

Sitting just west of University Ave. on a small slice of land, the University Park neighborhood began in the late 1960s as an idea, a stubborn redoubt against the notion that Black citizens should be corralled in the old eastern and southern zones of LR.

Thirty-five years ago, an LRSD elementary with a court-mandated 50/50 racial balance became one of the most sought-after schools in the state. Now, the campus in Little Rock’s faded East End stands empty.

The Big Gay Myth of Masculinity in Sports — with Mississippi’s own @jayjurden.bsky.social: youtu.be/2tYHGWMLwpM?...