The small, rural community of Sweet Home is a majority-Black community in Pulaski County. Of more than two dozen communities in Arkansas named Sweet Home to have obtained a post office (on May 29, 1877), this is the only community to have maintained it to the present.
A few years before the Civil War, as Arkansas lawmakers worked to expel freed Black people from the state, a Black businessman named Nathan Warren decided to leave hostile Little Rock and head to Ohio.
SoMardi Gras, SoMa 501 Little Rock Inc. s annual New Orleans-style parade, rolls down Little Rock s Main Street at noon Saturday. The parade, with a "superheroes and villains" theme, starts at 24th and Main streets and proceeds to 12th Street, where it will transition into a SoMa block party, with live New Orleans-style music.
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