Organizers wrapped up a week of events in Arkansas with a virtual press conference Friday where they announced plans to create legislation that works toward racial healing in the state. Sen. Joyce Elliott is working on the bill which would recognize the National Day of Racial Healing as an official statewide observance, establish community remembrance projects in all 75 counties, and exonerate Elaine Massacre defendants.

The Washington County Community Remembrance Project, a group of Fayetteville citizens committed to documenting and commemorating a troubling racial history, is hosting a high school essay contest in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative.  Top award winners will share a $5,000 cash prize. The Fayetteville Public Library is hosting a virtual essay contest workshop on Jan. 27 at 4:30 pm.

Tomorrow evening, Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) will speak, virtually, as a guest of the University of Arkansas Honors College. He is a businessman, educator, writer and commentator, as well as the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and the founder of Renew America Together. Earlier this month, he talked to us about what's next for the country as it transitions from one presidential administration to another.

The new Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, which recently opened for classes, was formally dedicated last week. The facility is the first tribally affiliated medical school in the country with a focus on educating primary care physicians who are interested in serving rural and underserved populations in Oklahoma.

Maurice "Footsie" Britt was one of the most decorated servicemen in American history, a standout athlete at the University of Arkansas, and a Lieutenant Governor of the state. This week's tour through the archives at the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History looks back on his life.

The spring semester is already underway for John Brown University graduate students, but officials have pushed back the start for undergraduate students to Feb. 1 to allow time for faculty and students to be tested. Tests must be administered on or after Jan. 25. Negative tests need to be uploaded to JBU by 2 p.m. Jan. 29.

The Fort Smith Board of Directors repealed a tax increase on some alcohol sales. The measure had been passed last month. Michael Tilley, with Talk Business and Politics, discusses the reversal. He also examines the 2020 numbers at the Fort Smith Regional Airport and a proposed new RV park near downtown Fort Smith.

The Pea Ridge Planning Comission has approved an auxillary permit for Walmart and its partner company, Zipline, to launch a drove delivery hub at one of the city's neighborhood market locations. The test program is expected to begin for select area customers this spring.