We talk with Charles Stewart, who worked his way up the corporate chain at Regions Financial Corp. to become the first Black banking executive in Arkansas, helped integrate women and other minorities into the workforce during his tenure on the Arkansas State Police Commission, put his efforts toward ending hunger and poverty at Heifer International and now serves as CEO and co-founder of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.
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Former Gov. David Pryor to lie in state at Arkansas Capitol
To honor the “beloved statesman and public servant,” Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ordered flags to half-staff on Monday through sunset on the day of interment.
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Former U.S. senator and Arkansas governor David Pryor is dead at 89
Former president Bill Clinton said he and Hillary were deeply saddened by the death of their friend and collaborator, who was always “honest, compassionate and full of common sense.”
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David Pryor released from hospital
David Pryor went home today after admission Saturday.
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David and Barbara Pryor test positive for COVID-19
David and Barbar Pryor test positive for coronavirus; David Pryor hospitalized but “responding well.”
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Hutchinson names Ed Fryar to UA Board of Trustees
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has named Ed Fryar of Rogers, a former agricultural economics professor at UA and poultry executive, to succeed David Pryor on the UA Board of Trustees.
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Former senators, including two Arkansans, warn of ‘dangerous’ political period
Forty-four former U.S. senators, including David Pryor and Blanche Lincoln, have signed a letter published as an op-ed in the Washington Post warning of dangerous political times in the country.
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UA Chancellor Steinmetz: Stadium expansion not on his priority list
Arkansas Business reports on a speech Tuesday by University of Arkansas Chancellor Joseph Steinmetz to the downtown Little Rock Rotary Club in which he went through his earlier announced eight priorities for the campus, but also said pointedly that the Razorback stadium expansion was not on that list.
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Report: David Pryor has moved home
Friends of former U.S. Sen. David Pryor report that he has moved out of a rehabilitation
facility in Fayetteville and is continuing rehab at home.
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Pryor family provides optimistic outlook on former senator
Through a family friend, I’ve gotten an update on retired Sen. David Pryor, 82, who has been hospitalized at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville since suffering a stroke Monday. The outlook is optimistic.