YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – One of the “Little Rock Nine” spoke at the Jewish Community Center on Thursday as part of Ohio Nonviolence Week. Minnijean Brown-Trickey was one of the nine students who ...

Four of the Little Rock Nine. From left to right: Minnijean Brown-Trickey, Elizabeth Eckford, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Terrence Roberts and moderator Brian Schwieger from the National Park Service ...

68 years seems like a long time ago. It was 1957. Elvis Presley was dubbed the King of Rock and Roll, Dwight D. Eisenhower was serving his second term as President, and on September 4th, the Arkansas ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark- The loss of Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed-Wair is a major one in the capital city. She was 83 years old, and people in the community remember vividly the start of the ...

Editor's Note: This coverage was made possible by donations to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Community Journalism Project. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Of the honors that Elizabeth Eckford and the other ...

NEWPORT NEWS (AP) — The nuclear submarine USS Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear the state’s name.