Search results for

This week’s archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, presented by Randy Dixon, focus on author and long-time "Cosmopolitan" editor Helen Gurley Brown.

One way that the Arkansas Economic Development Commission can help small businesses start, grow, and flourish is through awarding grants.

On today's show, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission is working with small businesses across the state to provide matching grants to improve innovation research. Also, a semester-long project to help area schools identify both challenges and solutions to those challenges. Plus, our Militant Grammarian is back with another spelling test.

The Bentonville Film Festival kicks off today, with events and showings scheduled all week, including "Ben and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts"

Arkansas dropped from 43rd to 45th for overall child well-being in the latest Kids Count Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

KUAF's Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, joins Kyle Kellams again in the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to quiz his knowledge of commonly misspelled words.

Some students are getting a summer break from school, but many teachers and educators are already thinking about the next school year. Last month, Forward Arkansas hosted teams of teachers and their principals for the inaugural “Celebration of Learning.” Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams spoke with Ben Kutylo, the executive director of Forward Arkansas, about the motivation behind the nonprofit’s first LeARner collective.

Last week dozens of runners met in downtown Bentonville to mark Global Running Day 2024.

On today's show, we lace up our shoes for Global Running Day. Also, celebrating freedom at the 2024 Northwest Arkansas Juneteenth observation. Plus, how three legends battled Jim Crow from the bandstand to change America.

Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams speaks with Larry Tye, author of the new book “The Jazz Men: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.” The book includes anecdotes and historical accounts detailing how the three legends battled Jim Crow to become global superstars and, as the book title suggests, change the country.