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Segment 1: How black cultural institutions can serve as a place for community healing.It's no secret that Kansas City still bears scars of redlining and…
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Segment 1: Kansas City photographers William Fambrough and Matthew Washington captured the African-American experience in Kansas City. For a long time…
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Lincoln Cemetery. Western Baptist Bible College. Wheatley-Provident Hospital.Compared to the 18th and Vine area, these are among the little-known…
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Segment 1: Cultural shifts in smoking and vaping.With smoking banned in most public places — and vaping on the rise among teens — we look at the changing…
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Levi Harrington was lynched on April 3, 1882, in the West Bottoms of Kansas City, Missouri.That may seem like a long time ago, but after 136 years, the…
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“Let the world see what I’ve seen.”These were the words of Mamie Till Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, when she allowed the media to use an infamous photo…
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The poet Mbembe Milton Smith wrote some provocative words about a Kansas City suburb:“There are uncharted places like Overland Park, Kansas or Greenwich…
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When Makeda Peterson was growing up, history was personal to her.Her father, Horace Peterson III, founded the Black Archives of Mid-America. He also…
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A local musician on the surprisingly complex history of the trumpet, then a look at the iconic stores that defined a time, a place and a way of life in…
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After 122 literary agents rejected her work, Kansas novelist Bryn Greenwood finally found a publisher in August for All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. She…
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Next week, KU will host a Black Arts Poetry Conference, which will feature readings by poets Frank X. Walker and Kevin Young at the Black Archives of…
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When historians hope to uncover a new wrinkle in the past, they usually head to an archive. They dig through boxes and folders containing photographs,…