Kansas Stories - Humanities Kansas

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Sorting Out Race

The Kauffman Museum's Sorting Out Race exhibition sparks conversations about racism and cultural stereotypes through knickknacks, games, books, and other memorabilia depicting racial imagery donated to thrift stores.

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Full Story FREE History: Seeing Today’s Kansas in Yesterday’s Actions A new online series, FREE History, explores events in Kansas history that connect with the human rights work taking place across the country today. Full Story

Full Story We Read Frederick Douglass ArtsConnect of Topeka is hosting an online community reading of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July” with the support of an HK Humanities for All grant. Full Story

Full Story Pandemic, Interracial Strife, and the Saving Grace of Humanities John Edgar Tidwell writes, "As we weather the current pandemic and interracial strife, we should turn to humanities’ inherent saving grace." Full Story

Full Story Making Agreements “Making Agreements: Black Women in Kansas Government and Social Activism” is amplifying the stories of and experiences of Black Women in Kansas politics. The project is supported by an HK grant. Full Story

Full Story From Masa to Mariachi: Exploring the Mexican Immigrant Experience in Kansas Watch "Mariachi Estrella: Ad Astra Per Aspera" about Topeka's all-female mariachi band and explore the rich culture of Mexican-Americans in Kansas through speakers, book discussions, and essays. Full Story

Full Story Voices from Topeka What can we learn about today's educational system 66 years after the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision? Firsthand accounts of Topekans impacted by the Brown decision are a good place to start. Full Story

Full Story Trailblazers "We don't tell Black women's stories enough," says Donna Rae Pearson, from "Making Agreements" a project that's collecting, sharing and archiving stories and details of Black women involved in Kansas' political sphere. Full Story

Full Story Place and Memory A Kansas professor explores race, memory, and place through the story of Emmett Till. Full Story

Full Story 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. Full Story

Full Story 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. Full Story

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 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." Full Story

Full Story The World Grows Here 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." Full Story

Full Story Paletero Brings Mexican Summer Classic to Liberal Neighborhoods 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." Full Story

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Full Story Chasing the American Dream 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." Full Story

Full Story Traditions Celebrate "Womanhood" 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." Full Story

Full Story From There to Here/De Allá Para Acá: Immigrant Stories of Kansas 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." Full Story

Full Story "We Remain" The connection between the Sand Creek Massacre and the Santa Fe Trail is explored at Rendezvous 2018, Sept. 20-22 at the Santa Fe Trail Center in Larned. Minoma Littlehawk-Sills delivers a Cheyenne blessing at the event 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 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 Full Story

Full Story The Future is Red The Young Professionals Powwow brings young Native American influencers together to explore themes of sovereignty and social growth. Full Story

Make Your Mark

"And the Children Shall Lead" is a community mural in Topeka inspired by the Brown v. Board decision. Members of the community are invited to make their mark by painting the mural.

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