A lawsuit challenging Arkansas congressional map was tossed this week by a three-judge panel that ruled the shift of more than 23,000 Black voters in southern Pulaski County from the 2nd Congressional District to two other districts was legal because it was motivated by politics rather than race.
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Arkansas education leaders on Friday authorized the tiny, state-controlled Marvell-Elaine School District to enter into a first-of-its-kind-in-Arkansas "transformation contract" with an outside entity for the day-to-day management of the academically troubled system in Phillips County.
The Arkansas Department of Education received notices of interest Tuesday from three organizations seeking a first-of-its-kind-in-Arkansas "transformation contract" to manage the state-controlled Marvell-Elaine School District.
In 1992, 42-year-old Kathy Manis Findley was ordained by Southern Baptists in El Paso, Texas, after members of her own congregation in Arkansas repeatedly declined to do so.