Charles Smith Jr., 17, was killed by North Little Rock police after a traffic stop turned deadly.

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Trent Bennett, a teacher at Malvern High School in Little Rock, took to KTHV-TV's Facebook page on Christmas Eve to unleash a series of racist remarks about President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Arkansas fireman rescued the baby girl after the parents didn't have her safely buckled in.

Milton Crenchaw, a flight instructor who trained the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. https://t.co/5SaFgJwSnV pic.twitter.com/k0cvK4SYsm — Dothan Eagle (@dothaneagle) November 18, 2015 Milton Crenchaw, one of…

Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…

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According to the AP , authorities in a central Arkansas town say about 100 blackbirds died on New Year’s Eve after being spooked by fireworks, far less than the thousands that perished there a year ago. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/35856

via: cnn.com Here’s what some of the survivors experienced: Jeremy Cooper – ‘We are so, so lucky’ The tornado hit a short distance from the house that Jeremy Cooper of Joplin, Missouri, shares with his family. “It started on 10th Street and I live on 7th Street,” he said. Cooper said sirens alerted him to […]

From NYDailyNews Arkansas — First birds dropped dead from the skies, now thousands of fish have died in Arkansas. Officials are investigating what may have killed some 100,000 fish in the Arkansas River in the northwestern section of the state, authorities said on Sunday. Deceased drum fish littered 20 miles of the river near Ozark, […]