In 1957, Brown Trickey was one of nine African American students who courageously desegregated Little Rock Central High School under federal protection, becoming a pivotal figure in the American civil ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Carlotta Walls LaNier about her new children's picture book, "Carlotta's Special Dress," ...

With rising anger and tension over the fatal shooting of a protester by an ICE agent, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is telling residents told people to be ready for something they haven’t seen in ...

Nine students at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts earned the Arkansas Seal of Biliteracy during ...

LaNier, along with Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Melba Pattillo, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas and Thelma Mothershed, are members of the Little Rock Nine, the ...

Arguments that the Little Rock School District should be allowed to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arkansas' Educational Freedom Account program are "fatally ...

This year, Arkansas's public school enrollment fell to a level last seen in 2005. "Education Freedom Accounts" are surely a ...

On Sept. 4, 1957, 14-year-old Carlotta Walls LaNier wore a black dress with white and teal letters and numbers squiggled across it. She held her head high as she walked with her schoolmates, ...

We're not writing to defend Little Rock's Black community--they don't need our help for this--but because we can't bear to sit home with the aftertaste of our own silence in our mouths. Speaking up is ...

60 years later, the Little Rock Nine still hold a special place in the Civil Right movement. The steps they took going into Little Rock Central High School paved the way for desegregation. Man behind ...