Community Conversations take place each Thursday with compelling discussions on Turning the Page, Culture Hour, Sustainability, Health & Wellness and Crucial Conversations on essential and newsworthy topics. This page includes an archive of previous sessions’ materials and recordings.

Turning the Page

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
  September 3, 2019
  
  
• Battling over Birth
  October 3, 2019
  
  
• Stamped from the Beginning
  November 7, 2019
  
  
• Medical Apartheid
  December 5, 2019
  
  
• The New Jim Crow, chapters 1-3
  January 2, 2020
  
  
• The New Jim Crow, chapters 4-6
  February 6, 2020
  
  
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism chapters 1-3
  July 7, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism chapters 4-6
  July 21, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism chapters 7-9
  August 4, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism chapters 10-12
  August 18, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Introduction
  September 8, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander chapters 1&2
  October 13, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander chapters 3&4
  November 10, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander chapters 5&6
  December 8, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
  February 9, 2021
  Video Recording
  
  
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
  March 9, 2021
  Video Recording
  
  
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
  April 13, 2021
  Video Recording
  
  
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
  May 11, 2021
  Video Recording
  
  
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
  June 8, 2021
  Video Recording
  
  

Culture Hour

• Culture Bumps
  September 12, 2019
  November 14, 2019
  
  
• Harvest Festivals and Giving Thanks
  December 12, 2019
  
  
• Cross-Cultural Views on Exercise and Diet
  January 9, 2020
  
  
• How Language Shapes the Way We Think
  February 13, 2020
  
  
• Social Justice in Islam
  June 2, 2020
  Video Recording
  Additional Resources
  
  

Sustainability

• Sustainability at KUMC
  September 19
  
  
• Sustainability as Preventive Medicine
  November 21, 2019
  
  
• Introduction to Zero Waste
  December 19, 2019
  
  
• Environmental Justice
  January 16, 2020
  
  

Health & Wellness

• Hot and Cold Properties of Foods
  September 12, 2019
  
  
• Mindfulness 101
  October 24, 2019
  
  
• New Year's Resolution Fit in Fitness
  January 23, 2020
  
  
• Indoor Sanctuaries: Herbs and Indoor Plants
  February 20, 2020
  
  
• Managing Isolation and the Difficulties Associated with "Social Distancing"
  April 23, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  

Crucial Conversations

• Remembering Tequila KC
  October 10, 2019
  
  
• Intersectionality
  October 31, 2019
  
  
• Anti-Semitism
  January 30, 2020
  
  
• Discrimination and Racism Around COVID-19
  May 6, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• Recent traumas in the Black community: Processing, social accountability and looking to the future
  May 27, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• Recent traumas in the Black community: Addressing traumas in the Black community: Plan, strategize, organize and mobilize
  June 10, 2020
  Video Recording
  Resources
  
  
• Recent traumas in the Black community: Addressing traumas in the Black community: Plan, strategize, organize and mobilize continued
  June 17, 2020
  Video Recording
  
  
• Policing as a Source of Health Inequity: The Racial Foundations of Criminal Justice in America
  July 16, 2020
  Video Recording
• The Birth of Homo Criminalis: a Historical Overview of Mass Incarceration
  August 13, 2020
  Video Recording