Little Rock, Ark. — Today, Rep. French Hill (AR-02) joined America’s News Headquarters to talk about the legacy of his friend, Rep. John Lewis. In his interview with Alicia Acuna, Rep. Hill spoke about his treasured times with Rep. Lewis, like walking across the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 50th Anniversary of the Marches from Selma to Montgomery; learning that the Navy was naming… Read more »
Little Rock, Ark. — Today, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced a grant of $350,000 to the Oxford American (OA), a nonprofit arts organization known for its publication of the Oxford American magazine. The grant will fund a series of feature-length reported segments to air within Points South, a podcast hosted by Sara A. Lewis, the executive… Read more »
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, Representative French Hill (AR-02) sent a letter to Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson asking him to advance state support of Arkansas’s four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU): Arkansas Baptist College, Philander Smith College, Shorter College, and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. This follows President Trump’s signing an Executive… Read more »
Former Harding official to help advocate freedom of religion
2/17/2020
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
WASHINGTON -- A retired Searcy college administrator has been selected to serve on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
James W. Carr, former executive vice president and professor of business of Harding University, was named to the board this month by House… Read more »
EDITORIAL: Blessed assurance
2/11/2020
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
How can it be--how can it become--that a country with so many religious people in it can be free of the religious wars that have plagued other countries?
You can't swing a dead cat in Arkansas without hitting a church--Lutheran, Catholic, Baptist, Methodist; take your pick. And so far we've only mentioned some… Read more »
Hill, British counterpart make appeal for renewal of religious freedom
2/7/2020
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
WASHINGTON -- Religious persecution is rising around the globe and it's important for freedom-loving nations to stand up for people of faith, lawmakers and a British member of parliament said this week.
At a roundtable discussion organized by U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark.,… Read more »
WASHINGTON D.C. — Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement after passage of his bill to honor Arkansas civil rights champion and lawyer, Scipio Jones. Rep. Hill’s bill, H.R. 3317, the Scipio Jones Post Office Portrait Act, allows a portrait of civil rights champion Scipio Jones to be displayed in the Little Rock post office bearing his name.
"Arkansans are… Read more »
WASHINGTON D.C. — In response to the U.S. Senate acquittal of President Donald J. Trump, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement:
“Over the course of American history, countless citizens have exercised their First Amendment rights by protesting our nation's chief executives; however, the power of impeachment is a solemn one and vested solely in the… Read more »
Rep.Hillat the ceremony inducting the Elaine Massacre into the Arkansas Civil Rights Heritage Trail.
From left to right:Dr. Brian Mitchell, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas
at Little Rock; Congressman French Hill; descendant of the Elaine 12; Ms. Annie Abrams;
descendants of… Read more »
WASHINGTON D.C. — Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement, applauding the introduction of a Senate companion to his bill, H.R. 3317, the Scipio Jones Post Office Portrait Act:
“I would like to thank Senator Boozman and Senator Cotton for answering my call and working with me to introduce companion legislation permitting the painting of Little Rock… Read more »
