Niketa Reed
Niketa Reed founded the Fayetteville media nonprofit Arkansas Soul with a mission beyond inclusion. Her idea felt more like immersion.
An offshoot of Reed’s work recruiting Black and brown students to the University of Arkansas’ journalism program, Arkansas Soul sees Black and brown news as its “main story, not as a special topic,” said Reed, a teaching assistant professor and the nonprofit’s executive director.
“It’s our lives,” Reed said in a phone call last week, a 20-minute gusher of information, humor and fervor. A former marketing pro in Memphis, Reed is an evangelist for the news, culture and history of Black, indigenous and people of color in Arkansas.
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RefleXions Music Series, a project funded by the University of Arkansas Chancellor s Grant for the Humanities and Performing Arts Initiative, has partnered with KUAF 91.3 to produce the new RefleXions Podcast, which is co-hosted by Ozarks at Large s Antoinette Grajeda and U of A Music Professor Lia Uribe, who is also the host of the weekly Sound Perimeter segment on OAL. The second episode of the podcast features Imani Winds co-founders Monica Ellis and Toyin Spellman-Diaz who also joined the U of A this spring for a virtual residency.
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