Big Idea Article/Podcast/Music List
Check out engaging articles, podcasts, and musical selections about Big Idea topics and spark a rich, enlightening conversation.
It's Time to Tell the Stories of African American Entrepreneurs
by Robert E. Weems, Jr., Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History, Wichita State University
Audio interviews from the “Wichita African American Business History Project”
Images from the Mind of a Bi-Racial Black Woman
by Ann Dean, professional photographer
- “Black and Blue" by Louis Armstrong
- "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday
- "A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke
- "Mississippi Goddamn" by Nina Simone
- "Truth and Soul” by Fishbone ‘ESP’ Miles Davis Second Quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and Ron Carter (or ANYTHING by this group)
It's Time to Reconnect with Nature
by Leslie VonHolten, writer and executive director of Symphony in the Flint Hills
Changing How We Talk About the Civil Rights Movement
by Clarence Lang, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Penn State University
What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement After 1965? Don't Ask Your Textbook?
How Do You Teach the Civil Rights Movement -- NPR
K-12 Educators Workshop: The Long Civil Rights Movement -- with Carol Anderson and Brenda Santos (video)
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall on Civil Rights (video)
How Do You Teach the Civil Rights Movement -- New York Times
How the Civil Rights Movement embodied a time of change -- PBS
The Long Civil Rights Movement Initiative
It's Time to Change How We Talk About Immigrants
by Kandace Creel Falcón, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Minnesota State University Moorhead
My Life as an Undocumented Migrant by Jose Antonio Vargas -- New York Times Magazine
Illegal vs. Undocumented: The Heated Divide Over How We Talk About Immigration
Latino USA -- Podcasts on Immigration
It's Time to Change the Way We Talk About Poverty
by Jason Wesco, Executive Vice-President of the Community Health Care Center
- Poverty USA
- Play Spent, an online experience about surviving poverty and homelessness
- County Health Rankings in Kansas
- Income Inquality publications from the US Census Bureau
Natives Making News: Toward a More Authentic and Ethical Representation of American Indian Identity, Issues, and Individuals
By Dr. Melissa Greene-Blye (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma), Assistant Professor in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Kansas.
- This New York Times list of Indigenous podcasts highlights strong storytelling by Natives themselves.
- This list of recommended films and readings from the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz ranges from Indigenous environmental theory to the history of Natives in rock-and-roll, and more.