1. From DemocracyNow: “Judge Wendell Griffen on a Life Fighting for Justice, from Protesting Death Penalty to Backing Mumia”
2. USDA NRCS News Advisory – USDA Highlights New Project with University of Arkansas, Part of Historic Investment through Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities
Release No.121622
Contact: Reginald Jackson, State Public Affairs Specialist
(501) 301-3133(w) 501-352-7761(c)
News Advisory
USDA Highlights New Project with University of Arkansas, Part of Historic Investment through Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities
HUMPHREY, AR, Dec. 15, 2022— On Friday December 16 at 11:15 a.m. CST, USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Homer Wilkes will join the University of Arkansas at Monticello and their partners for a visit to Five Oaks Ag Education and Research Center in Humphrey, AR. At the event, Wilkes will announce funding for Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities projects, including approximately $3.7M for an Arkansas based climate smart forestry pilot project that will benefit small and underserved landowners in the Southern Bottomland Region. There will also be an open press tour of the research site to see conservation practices that will be studied as part of this project.
Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities investments in projects nationwide will expand markets for climate-smart commodities, leverage the greenhouse gas benefits of climate-smart commodity production, and provide direct, meaningful benefits to production agriculture.
Who: Homer Wilkes, USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment
Dr. Michael Blazier, Dean of College of Forestry, Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Arkansas at Monticello
Nana Tian, Assistant, Professor, Forest Resources Center, University of Arkansas at Monticello
When: Friday, December 16th at 11:15 a.m. CST
Where: Five Oaks Ag Education and Research Center
1895 Highway 152
Humphrey, AR 72073
3. “Christmas with the Art Porter Singers – Famed Choir Marks Return To In Person Performances”, by Kelly Eddings
In 1976, renowned jazz luminary, Art Porter, Sr. assembled former Horace Mann High School choir members, their spouses, and friends at historic Bethel A. M. E. Church in Little Rock, forming the Art Porter Singers to present a program of Christmas music. Their performance of Handel’s “Messiah” followed in December 1977 and continued until the onset of Covid-19. The group’s forthcoming concert is its first in-person performance since then.
I caught up with the choir’s director and board chair of the Art Porter Music Education organization, Sterling Ingram to learn about the choir, Sunday’s performance, and plans for the future.
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4. The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission To Host Christmas Holiday-Themed Massive Food and Toy Giveaway
5. Rock IT! Lab Hosts Small Business Saturday (Christmas Edition)
6. Pyramid Art, Books, and Custom Framing Host, “I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife – African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era” by Rita Roberts (IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL EVENT)
I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical experience.
Amidst bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters they exchanged. Despite harsh laws against literacy and brutal practices that broke apart Black families, people found ways to write to each other against all odds. In these pages, readers will meet parents who are losing hope of ever seeing their children again and a husband who walks fifteen miles to visit his wife, enslaved on a different plantation.
The collection also includes tender courtship letters exchanged between Lewis Henry Douglass and Helen Amelia Loguen, both children of noted abolitionists, and letters sent home by the young women who traveled south to teach literacy to escaped slaves. Roberts’ expert curation allows readers to see the wider historical context. The transcriptions are accompanied by reproductions of selected original letters and photographs of the letter writers.
This Will Be An In-Person Event on Sunday, December 18 at 3pm!
Or Register for simultaneous virtual event (via Zoom) HERE
7. UAMS Healthcare Career Preparation Opportunity Introduces Its UAMS Anesthesia Tech Pipeline Program
8. Typeout To Hosts Computer Science Academy for Middle & High School Students
