By the time she graduated high school, Jessica Govea knew without a doubt that social justice was her calling, and at the age of 19 she joined Cesar Chavez and […]
For Isabella Aiukli Cornell, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a prom dress was the perfect vehicle to express pride for her Native heritage and to signal her […]
Liz Ogbu, a designer, urbanist and social innovator, participates in a conversation with artist Caledonia Curry (a.k.a. Swoon) about solving social problems through creative transformations of places, systems and communities. […]
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by […]
It’s the eve of the American Revolution, and there are just as many opinions about war and independence as we hear about politics and religion today. Step back in time […]
Join the National Museum of Women in the Arts for a conversation about the gender inequity that pervades the culinary industry. Celeste Beatty, the first Black woman brewery owner in […]
By 21, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland had demonstrated against segregation dozens of times, been imprisoned for her work as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and been hunted […]
In 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre was not an isolated incident, but part of a pattern of white mob violence against Black communities and institutions that stretched back to the […]
In this session, Kevin Mason, Waldorf University professor, presents about Iowa’s changing physical environment during the 1850s and how northwest Iowa’s worst winter on record (1856-1857) escalated tensions between settlers […]
This recorded program addresses some of the first people to live in the land we now call Iowa. Learn more about the Native nations, including the Iowa (Baxoje), with Lance […]
In this recorded session, Dr. Ashley Howard, University of Iowa, looks at the relationship between class, gender and region in urban uprisings in the Midwest; the central differences between the […]
In this recorded session, Dwain Coleman, University of Iowa Ph.D. candidate and co-director of the Iowa Colored Conventions Digital Project, discusses how Black Civil War Veterans of the 1st Iowa […]