Pine Bluff Interested Citizens for Voter Registration Inc. Pen or Pencil Mentoring Movement invites schools to participate in a boycott of negative behaviors in the "Nonviolence to No Violence Challenge."
I have received a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the Martin Luther King Jr. Drum Major Community Service Award from Presidents Barack Obama and Donald J. Trump. A testament to my work in Pine Bluff appears in the U.S. House of Representatives Congressional Records and the United States National Archives. I have six letters from six U.S. presidents. The first Pine Bluff resident to speak at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and the University of Notre Dame Law School event, the first in Arkansas to receive the 400 Distinguished Award from the 400 Years of African American History Federal Commission. Traveling across the country to speak and learn gives me standing in Pine Bluff. My work here and recognized nationally is to improve my community to be better and a safer place to live and raise children.
The Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission will present the Rev. Jesse Turner with the MLK Lifetime Achievement Award for promoting the principles of King.
The Historic Elm Grove Baptist Church, 3114 S. Mississippi St., in Pine Bluff is preparing for its 180th anniversary celebration at 10 a.m. Aug. 20. The Rev. Jesse Turner is the pastor.
Members of the Pine Bluff Faith Community Ministerial Alliance and a representative from the Pine Bluff Police Department will travel to Birmingham, Ala., July 14-17, to attend the 50th annual National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice Conference and Training Institute.