The social justice group Venceremos recently tried to deliver petitions signed by nearly 200 line workers to the plant manager of a Tyson poultry slaughterhouse on Berry Street in Springdale. The petitioners are seeking comprehensive coronavirus workplace protections. Two days after the action, Tyson opened two Northwest Arkansas facilties, including the Berry Street plant, to show federal and state officials deployed COVID-19 protections.

The Matt Adams Foundation is using a $79,000 Cigna Foundation grant to support its Northwest Arkansas Opioid Response Project. Since its inception in March 2019, the organization has trained and distributed Naloxone opioid overdose reversal kits to more than 2,200 community members including 20 police and fire departments, and nearly 50 lives have been saved through the program.

The Fayetteville Public Education Foundation is going ahead with the 20th Celebration of Excellence. While it will be a virtual event held on Facebook Live, there will still be an emcee and a meal.

This week , Governor Asa Hutchinson will make a decision on when gyms and fitness centers can reopen, but in the meantime, many owners are finding alternative ways to bring exercise outside of their facilities and to clients looking to stay healthy while social distancing.

The pandemic has put sports on hold, so instead we spend some time with archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Cemter for Oral and Visual History to remind us how influential sports can be. This week we hear songs inspired by the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Michael Tilley, with Talk Business and Politics , discusses the latest developments in a long-running saga of the back and forth between the city of Fort Smith and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a consent decree that requires the city to make millions of dollars worth of sewer upgrades.

A significant number of COVID-19 cases in Arkansas have been documented inside Cummins State Prison, south of Pine Bluff. In response, this week a coalition of civil rights groups, including ACLU Arkansas with assistance from prison rights advocacy group decARcerate , filed an emergency complaint on behalf of the prisoners. It states the Arkansas Department of Corrections and the state are taking inadequate measures to prevent disease spread within state correctional facilities.

Cherokee Nation Health Services is increasing its use of telemedicine to help reduce the potential spread of COVID-19. Each Cherokee Nation health center now uses telemedicine technology for primary care services and some specialty services including pediatrics, women’s health, behavioral health and infectious disease. The tribe also began offering teledentistry appointments this week.

Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, started Thursday, April 23 and will continue through May 23. Leaders at the Bentonville Islamic Center say it's a very communal time of year and they've had to adjust to the changes brought on by social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus outbreak.

The second annual Fayettevile Jazz Festival is this Friday and Saturday. Instead of concerts and classes on the University of Arkansas campus and at the Fayetteville Public Library, the festival is taking place on YouTube from homes around the world.