New Orleans Roy Reed passed away at 87 from a stroke. He had been many things over the years, working most recently as a journalism professor at the University of Arkansas and earlier as a reporter for the Arkansas Gazette, when it was still a stand alone newspaper. He was also a reporter for the …
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Arkansas ACORN Leader, Walter Nunn
New Orleans In the early 1970s, I used to run into Walter Nunn all the time. He and his wife were the primary leaders of the ACORN group in Oak Forest. He sat on the ACORN board in Little Rock and statewide in those days, but was always more of a back-of-the-room guy, than the …
Exploiting Immigrants Old School in Arkansas-Mississippi Delta
Ottawa Almost every month for the last 3 ½ years I’ve driven through the Lake Village area of southern Arkansas and more recently back and forth across the bridge to Greenville, one way or another, as well. Along the lakeside past the fishing docks, the boat launches, the catfish and barbecue places I’ve often done …