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School of Community Executive Economic Development.
Ari served on the Black Church Task Force established by the Foundation for the MidSouth helping to formulate the Foundation's community development strategy for partnerships with Black Churches in the "Bible Belt" states of Arkansas,Louisiana and Mississippi. He produced the Summary Technology Transfer Reportof the First Regional Conference of the U.S. Delta Development Commission entitled, "The Mississippi River Delta: Its People, Its Problems, Its Potential,published by the Center for Economic Development, Arkansas State University.
In the same year he implemented the Delta Community Economic Development Studies Program, a Certificate Program in the Science of Community Economic
Development, at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
He is a White House Honoree, President Jimmy Carter. He is a decorated,honorably discharged, Vietnam War Veteran, Headquarters Recon, 3rd Brigade, 4th and 25th Infantry Divisions, U.S. Army, 1967-1968. He is one of the original
"Bloods." The motion picture Dead Presidents, with actor Larentz Tate playing Ari'scharacter, was loosely based on Ari's oral history of the Vietnam War as written in
the book Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War By Black Veterans, Chapter 7, published by Random house, and Ballantine Books, New York.
Ari revitalized the historical Arkansas State Press Newspaper in 1984, under the ownership of the late Daisy Bates, after its 24-year hiatus. He recently contributed to the most recent book about Daisy Bates entitled, In Her Own Words, RobinsonOmniMedia, 2007. Ari is a Board member of the National Coalitionof Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) and is the Northeast Regional Representative.
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