Little Rock Nine member Carlotta Walls LaNier wants young people to find their voice amid political polarization.

Seventy years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ended racial segregation in public schools, members of the "Little Rock Nine" -- the first group of African American ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Thelma Mothershed-Wair, the eldest member of the Little Rock Nine passed away on Saturday. Mothershed-Wair was born on November 29, 1940, in Bloomberg, Texas and became a national ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Travelers will honor the Little Rock Nine during the 2025 season with special uniforms and hats during three games in August. “The Arkansas Travelers are honored to ...

When Mothershed Wair was a teenager, she and 8 other Black students initiated the integration of Central High School in Little Rock. Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine, has died ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It was 68 years ago today that Little Rock Central made national headlines when 10 Black students arrived to enter the school — that day would become a historic moment, signaling ...

Editor's Note: This coverage was made possible by donations to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Community Journalism Project. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — With a solid swing from living history, the latest ...

Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city of Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults, ...

ROCK ISLAND, Illinois — Martin Luther King Jr. Day takes place every year in January and honors the critical work of the civil rights activist and leader. In commemoration, the MLK Center hosted a ...

In 1957, nine Black students entered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, an all-white school. A monument was installed on Capitol grounds in Little Rock in 2025. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ...

A member of the Little Rock Nine died over the weekend. Grace Davis tells 40/29 News that her sister, Thelma Mothershed Wair, died Saturday at the age of 83. Wair was one of nine African-American ...