Pete speaks to Trisha Posey, the honors director and a professor of history at John Brown University, about “Voices and Votes”, a live event on Thursday, September 7, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Simmons Great Hall on the John Brown University campus.
The event will include a panel discussion led by Kyle Kellams from KUAF Public Radio with leaders in political engagement from Northwest Arkansas – including Daniel Bennett (JBU Political Science Chair), Laura Gutierrez (Justice Ambassador Specialist at Prison Fellowship), Delia Haak (Arkansas House Representative), Chris Seawood (Treasurer, Northwest Arkansas MLK Council) and Yamil Tenorio (JBU student and President of AEI Executive Council Program).
Nearly half of Arkansas households are ALICE: asset limited, income constrained, employed. The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation's Shantell Hinton explains what that means for working families.
Ahead of a free talk at the Fayetteville Public Library, the Pulitzer-winning author of James discusses why he writes chronologically, how much of his own work he forgets, empathy in fiction.
Olivia and Tom Walton are giving $100 million over five years to Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan push to halve U.S. maternal deaths. Arkansas has among the nation's worst rates.