Kansas Stories
Big Idea: It's Time to Change the Way We Talk About Poverty
An estimated 875,000 Kansans are likely not making ends meet. Rather than place blame on why or how this happened, let's try to understand the real impact that economic insecurity has on our communities and neighbors.
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Places
INSTA-INSPIRE
Story Chasers help spark new conversations and lead the movement of ideas spreading across the state.
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People
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
A new traveling exhibition commemorates centennial of the 19th amendment
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People
Meet Galyn Vesey
Dr. Galyn Vesey was a participant in the 1958 lunch counter sit-in at the Dockum Drugstore in downtown Wichita and is currently working on a book about the Black experience in Wichita, Kansas from the 1870s to the 1970s.
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People
Three Days of Peace and Music
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music happened fifty years ago this month.
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Confronting the Klan
The world watched through its newspapers as the 56-year-old newspaper editor William Allen White traveled 2,783 miles and made 104 speeches, all directed at expelling the Klan.
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Sweetheart Dancing
The world watched through its newspapers as the 56-year-old newspaper editor William Allen White traveled 2,783 miles and made 104 speeches, all directed at expelling the Klan.
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Speaking Out: Women Speakers at the Chautauqua
The world watched through its newspapers as the 56-year-old newspaper editor William Allen White traveled 2,783 miles and made 104 speeches, all directed at expelling the Klan.
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A New Deal for Public Art in the Free State
The world watched through its newspapers as the 56-year-old newspaper editor William Allen White traveled 2,783 miles and made 104 speeches, all directed at expelling the Klan.
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The Weather of Our Lives
The world watched through its newspapers as the 56-year-old newspaper editor William Allen White traveled 2,783 miles and made 104 speeches, all directed at expelling the Klan.
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Let Me Be Brave
The world watched through its newspapers as the 56-year-old newspaper editor William Allen White traveled 2,783 miles and made 104 speeches, all directed at expelling the Klan.
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The Flesh and the Bones
The world watched through its newspapers as the 56-year-old newspaper editor William Allen White traveled 2,783 miles and made 104 speeches, all directed at expelling the Klan.
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Race & Ethnicity
I Just Want to Testify...
A documentary film and hosted a community town hall commemorate the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case.
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People
William Stafford: Clarity in Times of Anxiety
For Kansas’s most beloved poet, William Stafford (1914-1993), poetry and activism went hand in hand.
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People
How Did You First Learn About the Vietnam War?
How do we bridge the gap between Americans who lived through the Vietnam era and younger generations to whom the war is part of the past? Audrey Coleman, of HK's Speakers Bureau, suggests we turn to the archives.
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People
Dairy Queen
Caroline Shawk Brooks's path to prominence in the traditionally male world of sculpture was hard won. Hard won, but deliciously deserved, and doubly amazing for her choice of medium: butter.
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The Girls of Atomic City
Author Denise Kiernan comes to Hutchinson on March 5 to discuss her book "The Girls of Atomic City" as part of the Dillon Lecture Series. The event is supported by an HK Humanities for All grant.
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