Kansas Stories - Humanities Kansas

What Does Your Horizon Look Like?

What's on the horizon for the historically African American and Latino neighborhoods of North Wichita? A project to collect the stories and community vision of residents is now a new exhibition, "The Color Line."

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Full Story AbOriginal Lakota Hip Hop artist Frank Waln uses his artistry to consciously reconnect to his culture and language. He is coming to Kansas as part of the Highland Community College Cultural Series in 2019. Full Story

Full Story The World Grows Here The "Strangers in Town" documentary film tells the story about how global migration transformed and enriched Garden City. The film was supported by a Humanities for All grant. Full Story

Full Story Goddard Woman's Club is TCB The Goddard Woman's Club members dedicated themselves to serving their community back in 1933. Today, a Culture Preservation Grant from HK is documenting the club's legacy of service and bringing new stories to light. Full Story

Full Story Join the Movement on the Map Walk with Me/Camino Conmigo is a walking and driving tour of Latino cultural sites in Kansas City, Topeka, Newton, and Wichita. Full Story

US soldiers in front of supply convoy trucks in Vietnam

Full Story The Haunts of War Alvin Matzke participated in the Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War memoir writing workshop in Onaga. Born and raised in Pottawatomie County, Matzke served Vietnam from November 1968 to August 1969. Full Story

Full Story Paletero Brings Mexican Summer Classic to Liberal Neighborhoods Paleteros selling paleta — Mexican ice cream and sherbet bars — have been a staple in Liberal, Kansas, for years. Full Story

Two men walking through prairie landscape

Full Story Kansas: An Eclogue Two Kansas filmmakers set off on foot across Kansas in search of a story that would reveal the place that they loved. The result was the film, Kansas: An Eclogue, a full-length documentary supported by a HK grant. Full Story

Woman in hat with Kansas landscape in background

Full Story Chasing the American Dream Michelle Mattich's parents chose a packing plant in Liberal to build a better life for their family. Full Story

Full Story Traditions Celebrate "Womanhood" The Quinceañera is a celebrated on a young woman's 15th birthday and represents the transition from girlhood to womanhood. The event also represents a family's hard work and success. Full Story

Full Story From There to Here/De Allá Para Acá: Immigrant Stories of Kansas HK's Valerie Mendoza shares her family's immigrant story in advance of bilingual immigration story writing workshops in seven Kansas communities led by José Faus of the Latino Writers Collective. Full Story

Big Idea: It's Time to Change the Way We Talk About Immigrants

Too often in the past, information about various immigrant groups shared by the mainstream media relied on harmful stereotypes and played up fears and anxieties. The negative narratives continue today.

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Full Story Meet Sonia Nazario Too often in the past, information about various immigrant groups shared by the mainstream media relied on harmful stereotypes and played up fears and anxieties. The negative narratives continue today. Full Story

Full Story William Garcia, HK Summer Fellow 2018 Too often in the past, information about various immigrant groups shared by the mainstream media relied on harmful stereotypes and played up fears and anxieties. The negative narratives continue today. Full Story

Full Story Casey Keel, HK Summer Fellow Too often in the past, information about various immigrant groups shared by the mainstream media relied on harmful stereotypes and played up fears and anxieties. The negative narratives continue today. Full Story

Full Story To An Anxious Friend Too often in the past, information about various immigrant groups shared by the mainstream media relied on harmful stereotypes and played up fears and anxieties. The negative narratives continue today. Full Story

Full Story Meet Annette Billings Too often in the past, information about various immigrant groups shared by the mainstream media relied on harmful stereotypes and played up fears and anxieties. The negative narratives continue today. Full Story

Full Story "We Remain" Too often in the past, information about various immigrant groups shared by the mainstream media relied on harmful stereotypes and played up fears and anxieties. The negative narratives continue today. Full Story

Full Story Meet Joan Weaver Library Director Joan K. Weaver is the driving force behind the cultural programs and opportunities at the Kinsley Public Library in southwest Kansas. Full Story

Full Story Civil Rights to Correct Civil Wrongs On a hot and humid Thursday evening in July 1958, a dozen young people quietly walked into a downtown Wichita drugstore and asked to be served. That day a movement began. Full Story

Full Story Meet Marwa Ghazali Anthropologist Marwa Ghazali engages in ethnographic field work with displaced populations in Kansas and Egypt. Full Story

Full Story Meet Danny Caine Danny Caine lives in Lawrence, where he owns and runs the Raven Book Store. He’s also a poet and author. Full Story

Till Marker Was Just 35 Days Unshot

35 days after it was dedicated, a sign at Graball Landing marking the spot where Emmett Till's body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River was pierced with four gunshots, the latest in a 10-year saga of vandalism

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