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“To me, it symbolizes freedom – how they broke out like birds,” Lawrence quilter and historian Marla Jackson said of an 1800s quilt believed to be made by a Black person who was enslaved.
Events coming up Friday and Saturday invite Lawrence community members to become immersed in an ear-shaped tallgrass labyrinth, learn about the environment and participate in a poetry exercise.
Human remains belonging to at least 104 Native American ancestors and one ceremonial mask that were in KU’s possession have been identified and repatriated with tribal nations in Kansas, Florida and Mexico.
“Emmett Till’s story is not a pleasant story. It’s not a pretty story, but it has to be told,” Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. told a Lawrence crowd of his cousin and friend who was brutally murdered in 1955.
The cousin and childhood best friend of Emmett Till will speak at a KU event this week. The talk will be livestreamed.
A pair of exhibits at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence are inspired by the life and death of Emmett Till, which helped launch the civil rights movement. The work of area textile artists helps connect the 1955 killing to contemporary violence against Black people.
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A local collective of Black artists is set to lead an interactive event with poetry and music, including an open mic, to celebrate Black storytelling.
Spencer Museum of Art is celebrating its freshly renovated space and new exhibits with a party on Saturday.
Two defendants plan to give public apologies Saturday for their theft of Indigenous artwork from KU’s campus last year. For two others accused of vandalizing the artwork, their criminal cases have just begun.
Texts written by women who were incarcerated will be featured in an interactive art installation across multiple Lawrence sites next month.
