Civil Rights

In our latest installment of Civil Wrongs, a sheriff's deputy in Arkansas exploits the 13th Amendment's exception for convict labor as a tool of racial terror in the 1930s.

Scott Hamilton, and Sherman Tate discuss key issues in Arkansas: a historic protest, the LEARNS Act's impact, and mental health initiatives.

The attorney for a man seen on video being punched and kneed by Arkansas officers said Tuesday that the violent arrest is part of an alleged pattern of excessive force by a sheriff's deputy, and policing experts said some of the blows appeared to be unjustified or even criminal.

Arkansas civil rights attorney and state lawmaker John Walker has died. He was 82. The Pulaski County Coroner’s Office says he died Monday at his home in…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Roy Reed, who covered key events during the civil rights movement for The New York Times before returning to his native Arkansas…

Arkansas joins the rest of the nation in reacting to Sunday’s shooting massacre in Orlando, FL at a Gay nightclub. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) called the…

On May 1, 1866, Memphis was home to a massacre that killed 46 African-Americans and injured many others. Now a historical marker shows an ongoing rift between white historians and black activists.