Arkansas state and congressional leaders and dignitaries came together at the first official event at the Governor s Mansion in Little Rock to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Monday morning for the 2023 MLK Unity Interfaith Prayer Breakfast.
More than seven months have passed since Lanette Frazier and LaTisha Brunson won seats on the Pine Bluff City Council, but on Tuesday it was finally time for the two women to take their elected spots.
The U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that protected women's rights to an abortion struck a bad chord with some local elected officials, while proponents of Friday's ruling saw it as the successful completion of decades of struggle, now that states including Arkansas are allowed to criminalize abortion again.