Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC — focusing on the White House and Congress — and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway.
The American Library Association awarded Franklin County Library $65,000 for its literacy program, funding tutors, a driving simulator and hot spot lending in Ozark.
Kora player Sean Gaskell brings the rare 21-string West African harp to Springdale and Fayetteville libraries this week, sharing centuries-old Mandinka music and history.
Debbie Beck of the Eddie Mae Herron Center in Pocahontas showed festivalgoers quilt patterns once used to guide people escaping slavery north to freedom.