Members of the Arkansas National Guard Youth Challenge Color Guard raise the flags of the United State, Arkansas, and the Juneteenth flag during a ceremony outside the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center to kick off the Center’s Juneteenth in Da Rock celebrations on Thursday, June 15, 2023. The celebrations will take place throughout the weekend, including a 5k walk/run on Saturday...(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephen Swofford)
Early last month, officials with the Arkansas National Guard's Youth Challenge Program received the call.
On July 8, they were notified that the program -- one of a handful initially implemented across the country in 1993 in order to help at-risk teens learn life skills and potentially earn high school diplomas...
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