Tag: Arkansas

  • Nation & World

    Undoing injustice

    Harvard Law School alum Omavi Shukur went into law to improve his fellow Arkansans’s material reality, and that’s exactly what he’s doing.

    A collage of images of Omavi with a map of Arkansas
  • Campus & Community

    Sit a spell, and pass the sweet tea

    A Southern student reflects on what his expectations were, and how the reality differed, when he moved to Cambridge from Arkansas to attend Harvard.

  • Arts & Culture

    Little Rock Central: 50 years later

    It’s been half a century, but it feels like just yesterday for at least one member of the “Little Rock Nine.” “I can’t feel this so strong, it doesn’t make sense … you are supposed to be over it,” says an emotional Minnijean Brown Trickey in the opening of the film “Little Rock Central High:…