Judith Carney, an expert on the history of rice cultivation and a professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles, will give a lecture at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro at 7 p.m. on Sept. 12 titled "Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas.".(Business Briefs)

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