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After the death of George Floyd and the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, Waterloo's Grout Museum of History and Science realized Black history had not often been displayed on its walls. From that conversation, the Black Stories Collective Project was born.
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The number of non-white farmers in Iowa is less than one percent, according to the 2017 Agricultural Census.
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A California native is paying it forward with a new digital showcase of Black-owned businesses in Iowa and beyond.
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The exhibition traces the routes taken by over six million African Americans during the Great Migration.
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More than 4,000 black butterflies are strewn across the lobby of the Dubuque Museum of Art.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, will give the 2022 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science at Iowa State next week.
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The Talk of Iowa Book Club has been reading the young adult novel The Hate U Give, one of the most banned books in the United States, including in Iowa.
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Trans girls banned from girls' sports. Racial disparities in cancer rates. And new music for the weekend.
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A group in Dubuque is raising money for a monument memorializing a Black man who was murdered in 1840 by a group of men.
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Ben Kieffer talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and creator of "The 1619 Project," Nikole Hannah-Jones.