Crystal C. Mercer's activism bleeds into promoting Arkansas businesses

A Q&A with the new executive director of Local First Arkansas. As a Clinton School of Public Service student, you recently spent seven months in Ghana working on your international public service project. How did it feel to arrive there?It was a true return. ... We survived the Middle Passage. We survived the inhumanity and injustice of slavery and Jim Crow. We are surviving to this very day, that undercurrent of racism, where you have to explain your existence in a world where you should ju