Rex Buchanan
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In 1955, an African-American teenager from Chicago, Emmett Till, visited a tiny town in Mississippi. Witnesses claim he spoke to, or perhaps whistled at, a white woman. Whatever happened, locals perceived the incident as disrespectful. Till was abducted and killed. His open-casket funeral back in Chicago sparked nationwide outrage. A KU professor has written a new book about the way we remember the incident. It's called Remembering Emmett Till. Commentator Rex Buchanan has this review.
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Kansas has made some notable contributions to the world of classical music, both on stage and behind the scenes. And Commentator Rex Buchanan thinks it's high time more people took notice. In this piece written for KPR, he highlights a Kansas woman and music educator who helped shape the sound of classical music.
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The communities of Hays and Russell are hoping to siphon water away from a ranch near Kinsley, about 60 miles away, and ship it by pipeline for their own use. Many residents in Kinsley and Edwards County are not happy with this plan.
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There was a time when Republicans were considered environmentalists. But then things changed. A new book examines what happened... and why. Commentator Rex Buchanan offers this review of the book The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump.
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There are few undiscovered places left on planet Earth. And yet, there are still some places that remain remote, isolated and relatively undisturbed by modern man. Commentator Rex Buchanan visits a place where you can enjoy the quiet solitude of nature as it might have been hundreds or even thousands of years ago: The Comanche National Grassland in southeastern Colorado. It's a place within reach of most Kansans where few have ever traveled.
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The new documentary, Strangers in Town, tells how one western Kansas town successfully dealt with an influx of immigrants and became the most diverse community in Kansas.
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It may be cold now, but winter won't weigh us down forever. Soon, spring will be back in action. And if you are eager to get back on your bike, Commentator Rex Buchanan has a new recommendation for you: the Flint Hills Trail State Park.
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In the American imagination, Kansas might seem like a place LGBT people would want to leave. In the book No Place Like Home, the author writes about why they stay. Commentator Rex Buchanan takes a look at this new work by public radio arts reporter C. J. Janovy.
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There are lots of beautiful National Parks to visit in the United States. One of them is Crater Lake, in Oregon. Commentator Rex Buchanan recently visited the place and discovered its surprising connection to Kansas.
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Ag & the Arts? Forget Oklahoma! But Check Out New Farming Photo Exhibit at the Spencer Museum of ArtAgriculture and art don’t often overlap in Kansas. But Commentator Rex Buchanan says there's a new exhibit of photos on farming at the Spencer Museum of Art that you don't want to miss. The photographs were taken by Wichita State professor and long-time Kansas photographer Larry Schwarm.