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Big Idea: Confronting the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
Eric P. Anderson (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) writes about how the cultural and moral injury inflicted by Indian boarding schools, like Haskell Institute, impacted generations of families and still reverberate today.
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Big Idea: Natives Making News: Toward a More Authentic and Ethical Representation of American Indian Identity, Issues, and Individuals
Dr. Melissa Greene-Blye's Big Idea examines why news media often fail to offer authentic representations of Indigenous communities and individuals.
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Big Idea: The Current State of Indigenous Storytelling
Rodrick Pocowatchit's Big Idea examines representation in film and pop culture.
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Big Idea: Top 10 Influential African American Musical Artists
Musician and historian Lem Sheppard shares his list of top 10 African American musical artists. The list of musicians is united by a common thread of tonality, spirituality, and social consciousness.
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Big Idea: My Top 10 Most Influential African American Songs
Cash Hollistah’s list of 10 influential African American songs from the 1950s to today are are "historical audio documents chronicling periods of time when voices like these were needed."
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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."
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It’s Time to Tell the Stories of African American Entrepreneurs
John Edgar Tidwell writes, "As we weather the current pandemic and interracial strife, we should turn to humanities’ inherent saving grace."
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Big Idea: Images from the Mind of a Bi-Racial Black Woman
John Edgar Tidwell writes, "As we weather the current pandemic and interracial strife, we should turn to humanities’ inherent saving grace."
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Big Idea: Free Did Not Mean Welcome for My Family
John Edgar Tidwell writes, "As we weather the current pandemic and interracial strife, we should turn to humanities’ inherent saving grace."
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Spark a Conversation with Big Ideas about Women
John Edgar Tidwell writes, "As we weather the current pandemic and interracial strife, we should turn to humanities’ inherent saving grace."
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Big Idea: It's Time to Reconnect with the Earth
John Edgar Tidwell writes, "As we weather the current pandemic and interracial strife, we should turn to humanities’ inherent saving grace."
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Big Idea: It's Time to Change the Way We Talk About Poverty
John Edgar Tidwell writes, "As we weather the current pandemic and interracial strife, we should turn to humanities’ inherent saving grace."
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Big Idea: It's Time for More Representation in STEM
Sarah Lamm studies rocks on Mars as a planetary science PhD candidate. She's frustrated when "no one assumes I'm a scientist" because of her age and gender. She's right. Less than 30 percent of scientists are women.
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Big Idea: We Need to Elevate Black Women's Stories
Can you remember a time you learned about a famous African American woman? Many Kansans cannot come up with an answer readily or easily.
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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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Changing How We Talk About the Civil Rights Movement
Domestic workers, laborers, unemployed youth, public housing tenants and other grassroots foot soldiers – largely working class, female, or both – did the daily work of the Civil Rights Movement. Where are their stories?
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The Heart of the Matter: The Role of Humanities
In 2010, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences created a Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences to address the importance of the humanities in the 21st century.
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