Kansas Stories
Faces and Places
"Faces of the East Side Neighborhoods," is a photo documentary project exploring the human legacy a Mexican immigrant community established within Dodge City in the early 20th century.
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The Big Idea
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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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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Meet Freddy Gipp
Freddy Gipp of Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Lead Horse LLC. An enrolled member of the Kiowa-Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Freddy created the Young Professional powwow, an event for indigenous influencers.
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Confronting the Klan
Freddy Gipp of Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Lead Horse LLC. An enrolled member of the Kiowa-Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Freddy created the Young Professional powwow, an event for indigenous influencers.
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Sweetheart Dancing
Freddy Gipp of Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Lead Horse LLC. An enrolled member of the Kiowa-Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Freddy created the Young Professional powwow, an event for indigenous influencers.
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Speaking Out: Women Speakers at the Chautauqua
Freddy Gipp of Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Lead Horse LLC. An enrolled member of the Kiowa-Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Freddy created the Young Professional powwow, an event for indigenous influencers.
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A New Deal for Public Art in the Free State
Freddy Gipp of Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Lead Horse LLC. An enrolled member of the Kiowa-Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Freddy created the Young Professional powwow, an event for indigenous influencers.
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The Weather of Our Lives
Freddy Gipp of Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Lead Horse LLC. An enrolled member of the Kiowa-Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Freddy created the Young Professional powwow, an event for indigenous influencers.
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Let Me Be Brave
Freddy Gipp of Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Lead Horse LLC. An enrolled member of the Kiowa-Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Freddy created the Young Professional powwow, an event for indigenous influencers.
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People
The Flesh and the Bones
Your stories, too, are worth saving and telling. This workshop will help you to find and construct those stories, to share your sense of who your family is with whoever carries it on into the future.
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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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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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