Kirk Sharp News Today

JOPLIN, Mo. — Reaching across different levels of history and influence, the Four State area is considered the birthplace of three prominent African Americans whose impact reaches across the nation. “When we talk about Langston Hughes or Gordon Parks, you see people who are from cities, but they were really from the heartland. They were […]

FORT SCOTT, Kan. (KOAM) - Fort Scott resident Shane Walker, a devoted Gordon Parks admirer, donates recovered AME Church cross.

FORT SCOTT, Kan. — An Arts and Culture grant through the Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas helped support the 20th Annual Gordon Parks Celebration, which will be held Oct. 5 through Oct. …

At 25, Parks purchased his first camera for $12.50 at a pawn shop. His skills were self-taught, but his mother’s “love, dignity and hard work” and his life experience guided

Photographer, author, journalist, film director, composer, musician. Gordon Parks broke ground in every creative landscape he chose. He may be the most accomplished artist Kansas has ever produced.

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

FORT SCOTT, Kan. — A recent gift of the African Methodist Episcopal Church property will help the Gordon Parks Museum continue to connect the threads of the multitalented photographer’s career

Fort Scott, Kan. - Some residents in Fort Scott joined the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day today hosted by The Gordon Parks Museum inside the Ellis Fine

• May 5, 2020 There was a moment when critics held much more central place in American culture. Film critics, book critics, art critics. Weknew their names. They were tastemakers. Trusted sources. Now in the age of rotten tomatoes and likes, we’re all critics. But a rarified few have transcended the trends and held onto a corner of the zeitgeist. No American critic has been better at that than New York magazine’s Pulitzer Prize winning art critic, Jerry Saltz. In his new boo...