Kansas Stories

Big Idea: Coupling Jim and Jane Crow
Jim Crow impacted African Americans throughout the twentieth century. So did its accomplice Jane Crow. Dr. Ayesha K. Hardison describes how Jane Crow affected Black women's lives and shaped their writing and activism.
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Hotline: Antigone
Did Antigone have it right? Listen as Sheilah Philip of Johnson County Community College explores themes of moral courage and civil disobedience in Sophocles' Greek tragedy.
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Hotline: The Legacy of Nicodemus
Angela Bates shares the legacy of Nicodemus, the first Black settlement west of the Mississippi.
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