Six Inductees Enter AR Black Hall Of Fame
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Six accomplished Arkansans have made it into the Arkansas Black Hall Of Fame.
The list includes: Hazel Shanks Hynton, a musician and educator; Pharoah Sanders, a jazz musician; Fatima Robinson, a dancer/choreographer; Dr. Patricia McGraw, a professor and humanitarian, John Stroger, Jr., a political leader and Harold Flowers, an attorney and civil rights leader.
Flowers was the only posthumous inductee.
Governor Huckabee hosted a reception for the honorees at the mansion and then attended the 12th annual ceremony at the Statehouse Convention Center.
All monies raised from the event will go to non-profit organizations benefiting the black community.
Past inductees include: poet Maya Angelou; Ebony and Jet magazine publisher John H. Johnson Jr. and former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders, and Former President Bill Clinton.
