Frank Barthell News Today

Photographer, author, journalist, film director, composer, musician. Gordon Parks broke ground in every creative landscape he chose.

Nicodemus is the oldest and sole remaining predominantly African American western town established in the late 19th century.

I drove through the east-central Kansas prairie to learn more about “Osawatomie” John Brown, as he was known to his enemies. I had to admire the courage of the abolitionists

Eight sites are now part of the Kansas African American History Trail. In the past 18 months, I visited each of them.

To the editor: I’m an atheist. But sometimes, it’s useful to view the world from the perspective of a fundamentalist Christian. If you believe an infallib