On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
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On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.
Before the Amazeum broke ground on a permanent space this morning, we visit their tinkering studio to learn through experience. Arkansas Lottery Officials update the Legislative Oversight Committee on decreasing lottery revenue. A group advocates at the state capitol for fairer tax laws, and the Ben Geren Aquatics Center moves forward as the first construction bids will soon be awarded.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Northwest Arkansas Rape Crisis Center will soon be able to expand their efforts to survivors of sexual assault, and a traveling exhibit at the University of Arkansas this week wants college students to engage in conversations about hunger.The traveling exhibit called Hunger U is on the University of Arkansas campus this week.
Surveys conducted through site visits to Arkansas school districts that conducted PARCC field testing this spring showed that most districts will be prepared for Common Core technology requirements this fall.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says there are drums, guitars and horns in our near future.
Community Health Workers in Arkansas have formed a network to better deliver public health services and share best practices.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the Wrecking Ball takes to downtown Springdale for a one of a kind event for one night only. Plus, First Christian jChurch in Fayetteville prepares to celebrate its 100th birthday today.
Our math expert Dr. Chaim Goodman Strauss left us with a poker puzzle last week. He gives us the solution on today’s Math Factor.
Proposed cuts in the federal defense budget recommend that the 188th Fighter Wing lose the A-10 Warthogs, replacing the current mission with an unmanned aircraft mission. The latest effort to sway the decision is a web-based letter-writing campaign.
Website: www.savetheflyingrazorbacks.com
“Blues Back” by Art Blakey Quartet
Michael Tilley from our content partner www.thecitywire.com discusses the Arkansas River, home sales in northwest Arkansas, and more.
Country legend Loretta Lynn performs tonight at Walton Arts Center, and a “GenArt” event will hosted at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has the details.
“Conversation” by Shankar
Photographer Jerry Taliaferro’s exhibition “Women of a New Tribe” hopes to present the beauty of African-American women in a new light.
To listen to how NPR helped Taliaferro name this exhibition, click here.
(Photo Courtesy: Jerry Taliaferro's www.blackartphotoart.com)
