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Students Take Part in Civil Rights Film Festival

Clinton School student Spirit Trickey (’10) continues to impact the community.  Last weekend, Trickey hosted the 4thAnnual “Reel” Civil Rights Film Festival, a partnership between the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site and Market Street Cinema.  The two-day festival featured a wide range of films and filmmakers, from auteur Spike Lee to Dallas-area [...]

Student Named History Maker

Clinton School student Spirit Trickey (’10) has been named a “History Maker in the Making” by TheGrio.com, a website affiliated with msnbc.com that is dedicated to African American news and popular culture. The daughter of Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Brown-Trickey, Spirit is recognized for her work as a park ranger at the Central High [...]

IMPACT Conference Planning Underway

Posted by student JULIANNE DUNN – This weekend, 40 students, campus administrators and service leaders from across the country met at the Clinton School River Market Campus to begin the planning process for the 2010 IMPACT Conference to be held in Little Rock, March 19-21.  The IMPACT Conference is historically the largest convening conference in [...]

Help Student Support Tanzanian Orphanage

Posted by BEN BEAUMONT – Clinton School student Jennifer Hicks is hosting a fundraiser to support her summer International Public Service Project in Moshi, Tanzania, where she will be doing outreach for Amani Children’s Home, an orphanage that rescues children from the perils of life on the streets, where they face a high risk of [...]

Celebrating Black History in the Delta

Posted by student JONATHAN DUNKLEY – About 55 members of the Phillips County community came out to a Black History Month program featuring Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Brown Trickey on Tuesday at the Boys Girls Adults Community Development Center (BGACDC) in Marvell, Ark. The event was a collective effort hosted by BGACDC, the Bethlehem [...]

Celebrating Black History in Marvell

Posted by BEN BEAUMONT – Clinton School student Spirit Trickey Rowan and Jonathan Dunkley will travel to Marvel, Ark., on Tuesday where they have organized a Black History Month program featuring Minnijean Brown Trickey of the Little Rock Nine. The program will be held at noon at the Boys, Girls, Adults Community Development Center (BGACDC) [...]

Student Highlight

Posted by ERIC WILSON – Clinton School student, Spirit Trickey, hit the news over the holiday with the Batesville Dailey Guard reporting the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s plans to present Spirit’s new play, “One Ninth,” at Arkansas State University-Newport. “Selected from The Rep’s 2007 Voices at the River play development program for emerging African American and [...]

Children of the LR Nine Speak

Posted by BEN BEAUMONT – In a panel discussion last week at the Clinton School, three children of the Little Rock Nine discussed their parents’ historic effort to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The panel discussion included Clinton School student Spirit Trickey-Rowan, daughter of Minnijean Brown Trickey; Jessica Green, daughter of Ernest [...]

From Central High National Historic Site

Posted by student CHAD WILLIAMSON – Wow…another great day in Little Rock as a Clinton School student. What an opportunity we all had today as we visited Little Rock Central High School National Historic site (compliments of our classmate, Spirit Trickey-Rowen). What we considered to be a day off from classes ended up being a [...]

Tavis Smiley and the Clinton School

Posted by DEAN SKIP RUTHERFORD – Of all the events I attended throughout the 50th anniversary commemoration of the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, none was more enjoyable than the Clinton School hosting Tavis Smiley and watching his radio show broadcasted from the Clinton Presidential Library this morning. Among his guests this morning were [...]