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'Ghosts of Segregation' presents photographic evidence of the prejudice and exclusion people of color faced.
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People still have things to say about "Moby-Dick," Herman Melville's 1851 novel about Captain Ahab's obsessive and dangerous hunt for a great white…
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Segment 1: A new documentary explores the life of abstract expressionist painter Albert Bloch.Albert Bloch lived the final decades of his life in…
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Segment 1: Kansas city of 10,000 has survived its hospital closing and may be the model for other rural communities. For the last eight years, non-urban…
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The Berlin Wall was six years from falling when “The Day After” premiered on television in 1983. The film, shot in Lawrence, follows three Kansans as they…
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The Kansas City Symphony has released an album of music it commissioned from one of America's most promising composers. We learn about that collaboration,…
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In 1949, Langston Hughes wrote,Democracy will not comeToday, this yearNor everThrough compromise and fear.Langston’s Lawrence, a new short documentary…
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East Lawrence, Kan., is a mecca for artists with its affordable housing and studio space.But an influx of funds for creative placemaking could change all…
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of writer William S. Burroughs, an icon of the Beat movement. Burroughs lived in Lawrence, Kan., from…
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For more than 35 years, the Lawrence Arts Center has run Summer Youth Theatre, an intensive theater arts program for kids in grades three through 12. This…
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Greek mythology is considered one of the major touchstones of Western culture. And modern literature abounds with references. "The Hunger Games" was…
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Much has been written about tumultuous relationships between artists - think Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera or Van Gogh and Gauguin. But often relationships…