In the Mix
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Carla Eckels brings you thoughtful community stories every month on In the Mix.
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This Valentine's Day, you may get a knock at your door from Grammy-nominated vocalist Roy Moye III. He is offering singing telegrams throughout Wichita this weekend. For this edition of In The Mix, Carla Eckels has more on Moye’s effort to share his passion.
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Housed in the archives of the Museum of World Treasures is a rare piece of civil rights history.
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This month on "In The Mix," Carla Eckels talks to a son of a veteran who is helping to bring the joy of Christmas to children.
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Candy Taylor knows a thing or two about Native American culture. Following a 17-year stint as a director at a museum in Oklahoma, Taylor recently became the new director of the Mid-America All Indian Museum in Wichita. She’s eager to help visitors learn more about Native American history and culture.
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A new documentary featured at this year's Tallgrass Film Festival resonates with interim executive director Sierra Franklin-Morton. “SEEDS” is a film that shines a light on Black farmers, their struggles, resilience and legacy. Franklin-Morton’s family owns farms in both Kansas and Oklahoma. For this installment of “In The Mix,” Carla Eckels speaks with Franklin-Morton about how the film connects to her own family history.
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The choir at St. Paul AME Church recorded a gospel album back in 1968. For this month’s In the Mix, Carla Eckels met with two of the singers on that recording.
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Shane Carter has only been the executive director of The Kansas African American Museum for three months, but one of his missions is to turn the museum’s new downtown space a premier destination for visitors.
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Architect and designer Erik Loya designed a building for the neighborhood that helped raise him.
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KMUW’s Carla Eckels visited Evergreen Community Center and Library for the kickoff of the Wichita Public Libraries’ summer reading program and has more for this month’s “In The Mix.”
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Mother’s Day is a time of reflection for retired educator and counselor Lola McLaurian, who has been a mother for nearly 60 years and has three grown children. For this edition of “In The Mix,” Carla Eckels visited McLaurian in her Kechi home to talk about motherhood.