Gretchen Eick News Today

I am a scholar of African American History, earning a Ph.D. in American Studies from KU in 1998, and I learned a lot from the 1619 Project.

It was a two decade long construction project meant to bring the future to Wichita. But one Wichita community says it brought only disaster for them. Its a story repeated in large cities across the c

Given the fraught racial history of Kansas, keeping the death penalty on the books is another legacy of unjust treatment toward Black people. Government should do better.

Carla Eckels/KMUW Carolyn Anderson of Wichita said she didn’t move from the television last week when Kamala Harris became the first woman to be sworn in as vice president. That Harris is a woman of color – her mother is from India; her father from Jamaica – made it even more special for Anderson, a retired nurse. “It was hard for me to hold back the tears,” Anderson said. “I’m so excited about what’s going on now. I am over 70 years old, and I remember growing up in the Unite...