Dr. Marcia Chatelain | Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
August 3 at 1:00 PM CDT
Join us in conversation with Dr. Marcia Chatelain as she discusses her Pulitzer prize-winning book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.
Dr. Marcia Chatelain set out to answer the question of how fast-food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods.
“If a conversation is hard, it’s probably one worth having.”
The CALS Ron Robinson Theater presents A Conversation Worth Having: a virtual series a part of the theater’s Civil Rights & Social Change Collection of programming.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, the theater presented a virtual watch party each week focusing on a different hero,
My name is Amy Forbus, and I serve as Communications Director for Hendrix College. After I graduated from Hendrix, my husband and I spent 14 years living in the Dallas area, then moved back to Little Rock in 2010 – we’re both Arkansas natives. When we aren’t constrained by a pandemic, I sing with a couple of different bands on a regular basis.
“I started going to culinary school because I had too many patients.”
Dr. Meenakshi Budrahja is passionate about food.
As a gastroenterologist, she has seen firsthand the effects of poor nutrition on people’s health. Frustrated by the serious illnesses created by high-fat, high-salt, high-sugar diets full of processed food, she realized that people needed help long before their poor health landed them in her office.
Despite being the shortest month, February is home to many celebrations, including Black History Month, Library Lovers’ Month, American Heart Month, Valentine’s Day, Groundhog Day, and Leap Day. Celebrate them all with CALS.
V.L. Cox is an artist who was born in Louisiana and raised in Arkansas. Guy Lancaster, Editor of the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas, will host a Conversation with V.L. Cox, exploring art, her ancestors, and a look at how Arkansas is perceived in the north. We were able to get in touch with V.L.
Cracking open a copy of Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be feels like flipping through Nichole Perkins’s personal diary. Each chapter is an essay, giving the reader brief looks into her life at different pivotal stages, starting at age 5, when Perkins has already become aware of the power and responsibility brought to her as a female.
When an award-winning musician and film director partners with an art director and illustrator who has experience in advertising, music videos, and feature films and they share a love of pianos, nothing but pure magic is sure to follow. Filipe Melo, from Lisbon, Portugal, has worked with Juan Cavia, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, before. Their latest collaboration,
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