Speakers urged those gathered on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day to be proud and know that their culture is important every day. Students from Haskell Indian Nations University, the University of Kansas and members of the community gathered Monday on Haskell’s campus for an event that ...
When Reginald Brown was walking to school in the third grade and first called a sissy and slurs for gay people, Brown didn’t even know the meaning of the words. “About five or six older boys from my neighborhood, from the sixth grade, surrounded me and started calling me [expletive], punk ...
Lawrence NAACP President Ursula Minor will give a presentation Thursday about the lynching of three Black men in 1882 and the ongoing project to commemorate the event. Pete Vinegar, Isaac King and George Robertson were lynched by a mob at the Kansas River bridge near downtown Lawrence on June ...
Kids growing up in Lawrence are almost sure to learn in school about the free-staters and Quantrill’s Raid, but Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre is hoping to add another facet of local history to the agenda: the Mexican American community of La Yarda that existed for more than 30 years in East ...
Lawrence’s Busker Festival will soon make its comeback after being canceled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing acrobats, break dancers and puppeteers to the streets of Lawrence. This year’s festival will take place Friday through Sunday and will feature over 20 acts on ...
Photographer Rich Frishman will host a series of art talks next week about his ongoing exhibit “Ghosts of Segregation.” The free exhibit is currently open and will run through Dec. 12 at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. “Ghosts of Segregation” includes 35 present-day ...