'Trailblazer' Ivory Lyles has died at 65 | Northwest Arkansa

Ivory Lyles, who the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture said became the first Black person to head an extension service at a predominantly white university system in the nation when he became director of the Cooperative Extension Service in Arkansas, has died.

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