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Arkansas, as well as other southern states, lags behind the nation in HPV vaccination rates. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is working to raise awareness about the vaccinations and the cancers the shots can help prevent.

In the second part of a three-part series about suicide and Black Arkansans, Johnathan Reaves from our partner station KASU, talks with Shadun Duncan about signs that could indicate a mental health crisis.

A new podcast produced by KUAF, Resilient Black Women, is a twice-monthly discussion about mental health and access to mental health for all...but especially for Black women and women of color. In an excerpt from the first episode we meet the hosts, Joi McGowan and Deneshia Simpson.

A University of Arkansas Honors College Signature Seminar, Extractions, will focus on demand for raw materials and the effects extracting them from the ground can have on people and communities. Toni Jensen will lead the seminar and will also deliver a free, public overview of the seminar Monday at 5:15pm.

On today's show, the booms and busts of extracting material from underground. Plus, work to increase access to mental health, efforts to raise Arkansas’ HPV vaccination rate, and much more.

In this week's Sound Perimeter, University of Arkansas music professor Lia Uribe is inspired by the works of Andy Warhol, and she brings us selections inspired by the artist. We hear performances from Nat King Cole, Valentina Lisitsa and Dolly Parton.

This week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal includes a conversation with Ray Hanley, the president and CEO of Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care. He talks to Roby Brock about mental health care in Arkansas.

Fallow for two years due to the global pandemic, the nonprofit Cobblestone Farms in west Fayetteville is regenerating this spring season with fresh staff and labor to sustainably grow food to market and donate to hunger relief agencies.

In April, 1872 what is believed to be the deadliest civilian gunbattle in American history took place in what is now eastern Oklahoma. Next month the United States Marshals Museum will host a two-day symposium about the Goingsnake Tragedy and the issues of sovereignty still discussed 150 years later.

On today's show, the Goingsnake Tragedy from 150 years ago, and what is believed to be the deadliest civilian gunfight in American history. Plus, after a more-than-two-year hiatus, the Black Apple Awards are back, and much more.