FRANK Talks: The Impact of Fake News in the Real World - Bullhead City
2018-04-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Phoenix) | Mohave Community College – Bullhead City Hargrove Library, 3400 HWY 95 - 700 Building, Bullhead City, AZ, 86442, United States
“Fake News”: The Impact of Fake News in the Real World
Jamie Bowen, Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Although not new, our awareness and use of the term “fake news” has risen in prominence. In general, “fake news” is media that consists of deliberate misinformation, news whose main purpose is to distort “the truth for emotional persuasion, seeking to drive action.” More recently it has become a catchall term used to discredit stories, and in the political arena to influence the political process and elections. With social media, fake news can reach a large audience with little cost. How can we tell what is fake news and what is real news? What is the impact of “fake news”? How does “fake news” affect public opinion and civic engagement? How do we balance the benefits of free speech against the burden of propaganda? Join us for a lively FRANK Talk about “fake news,” free speech and journalism today.

FRANK Talks: The Impact of Fake News in the Real World
2018-01-20 10:00 - 11:30 | AZ
“Fake News”: The Impact of Fake News in the Real World
Jamie Bowen, Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Although not new, our awareness and use of the term “fake news” has risen in prominence. In general “fake news” is journalism that consists of deliberate misinformation, news whose main purpose is to distort “the truth for emotional persuasion, seeking to drive action.” More recently it has become a catch-all term used to discredit stories, and in the political arena to influence the political process and elections in the U.S and abroad. What is the impact of “fake news”? How does “fake news” affect community conversations and civic engagement? How do we balance the benefits of free speech against the burden of propaganda? Join us for a lively FRANK Talk about “fake news,” free speech and journalism today.

Women on the Mother Road in Arizona: Route 66 - Kingman
2017-10-14 13:00 - 15:00 | Mohave Museum of History and Arts, 400 W. Beale St., Kingman, AZ, 86401, United States
Screening and Discussion of Oral Histories and Documentary Film
Called the “Mother Road” by author John Steinbeck, U.S. Route 66 stretches some 2,400 miles from Los Angeles to Chicago, symbolic of the mobility available to Americans, and an iconic highway for many travelers. Yet much of the historical perspective of the highway that passes through Arizona has primarily focused on men, often overlooking the experiences of women and girls. Please join us for a screening and conversation with project director Katrina Parks, historians Heidi Osselaer and Olivia Charest and archivist Sean Evans who will reexamine Route 66 from a female perspective.
Funding for this program is provided in part by a grant from Arizona Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), with additional support from the Mohave Museum of History and the Arts. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Katrina Parks at katrinaparks@mac.com.

FRANK Talks: Securing the Borders and Stopping Terrorism - Yuma
2017-10-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Yuma County Foothills Library, 13226 E. South Frontage Rd., Yuma, AZ, 85367, United States
Securing the Borders and Stopping Terrorism: A Constitutional Framework
Dr. T.J. Davis, Arizona State University, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Protecting its people is among the first priorities of any government. The Constitution’s Bill of Rights provides both for protection of the people, but also protects against undue intrusion by the government. How should the U.S. Constitution’s system of checks and balances operate in securing U.S. borders and stopping terrorism? Who poses a danger to U.S. security and safety, and what do we do about it? What public policies can be implemented to fulfill the government’s competing duties to protect people, and simultaneously respect civil liberties? Join us for a Frank Talk examining national security and civil liberties at the border.

FRANK Talks: Immigrants and the American Dream - Yuma
2017-10-06 14:00 - 15:30 | Yuma County Foothills Library, 13226 E. South Frontage Rd., Yuma, AZ, 85367, United States
Immigrants and the American Dream: We the People Today and Tomorrow
Dr. T.J. Davis, Arizona State University, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
The United States of America has long touted itself as the land of immigrants, and is demographically more diverse than at any time in our nation’s history. Yet the source and substance of immigration have been topics of continuous debate. How do domestic conditions, regional competition, geopolitics, and foreign policy affect immigration today? Who can become an American citizen and who cannot? How does a nation founded by immigrants, direct access to the U.S. for immigrants today? How do immigrants impact America’s social and economic vitality? Join us for a Frank Talk to ponder the question, what does it mean to be an American.

Hop, Skip & Jump into Reading - Yuma
2017-06-07 13:30 - 16:00 | AZ
Hop, Skip & Jump into Reading programs provide the opportunity for local Arizona children and families to hear exciting stories, participate in singalongs, learn illustration techniques and to build their own personal libraries with free books.

Rescued Lives, Transformed Communities: Refugee Resettlement in Arizona - Yuma
2017-05-20 13:00 - 15:00 | AZ
Rescued Lives, Transformed Communities: Refugee Resettlement in Arizona
Saturday, May 20th
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Yuma County Library
2951 W. 21st Lane – Yuma, AZ 85364
According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, there are currently over 60,000,000 displaced persons in the world, most of them women and children. Less than one percent of the refugees worldwide are offered the opportunity to build new lives in another country. What does it mean to be a refugee? What do refugees experience before coming to the United States? Is it the responsibility of the United States and other developed nations to provide protection, safety and resources to individuals who are escaping conflict and persecution? Learn about the history of refugee resettlement, the current overseas and domestic processing of refugees living in the United States and the refugee resettlement programs in Arizona. Engage in dialogue about the complexity of the refugee experience, how refugees enrich our local communities and how you can be more involved.
This program is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities and are part of the Humanities and the Legacy of Race and Ethnicity in the United States Initiative.

Art of the Internment Camps: Culture Behind Barbed Wire - Kingman
2017-03-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Mohave Community College – Building 300, Room 303, 1971 Jagerson Ave., Kingman, AZ, 86409, United States
Art of the Internment Camps: Culture Behind Barbed Wire
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1942 WWII Executive Order 9066 forced the removal of nearly 125,000 Japanese-American citizens from the west coast, incarcerating them in ten remote internment camps in seven states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Government photographers Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Ansel Adams documented the internment, and artists Toyo Miyatake, Chiura Obata, Isamu Noguchi, Henry Sugimoto, and Miné Okubo made powerful records of camp life. Arizona’s two camps (Gila River, Poston) were among the largest, and this chronicle illuminates an important episode of state history, one grounded in national agendas driven by prejudice and fear.
Betsy Fahlman is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University. An authority on the art history of Arizona, her books include New Deal Art in Arizona (2009) and The Cowboy’s Dream: The Mythic Life and Art of Lon Megargee (2002). She is the author of two essays in catalogues published in 2012 by the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff: “New Women, Southwest Culture: Arizona’s Early Art Community” (in Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton: Artist and Advocate in Early Arizona) and “Making the Cultural Desert Bloom: Arizona’s Early Women Artists” (in Arizona’s Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the Grand Canyon State).

Arizona Songbirds: The life stories of Marty Robbins and Linda Ronstadt - Bullhead City
2017-03-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Mohave County Library Bullhead City, 1170 E. Hancock Dr, Bullhead City , AZ, 86442
Arizona Songbirds: The life stories of Marty Robbins and Linda Ronstadt
These two Arizonans were blessed with beautiful and unforgettable singing voices and had more hits than the Arizona Diamondbacks. Songs like El Paso, Big Iron, Yellow Roses for Robbins and Different Drum, Blue Bayou and Skylark for Ronstadt. Marty was a little bit country and Linda was a little bit rock and roll. Both of them grew up in Arizona and put Arizona musical influences on our national cultural map. Robbins was an early lover of NASCAR and helped to solidify and popularize Western music. Ronstadt was an early female rocker who helped bring back the Big Band standards. This presentation will explore and reveal the lives and careers of these two popular music giants.
Steve Renzi, a University of Arizona graduate with a degree in history, believes that every generation must learn about who and what came before them or else the lessons learned are lost. As a writer and photographer with a teacher’s certificate in secondary education, Renzi is always searching for new ways of exploring our history. He has written and been published in over 200 magazine and newspaper articles and is currently a writing and photography teacher, as well as a basketball coach. Although he derives great satisfaction from his professional pursuits, his proudest moment was the birth of his twin sons.

FRANK Talks: Civic Engagement - Yuma
2017-03-18 13:00 - 14:15 | AZ
Civic Engagement: What is it & why is it important?
Ryan Winkle, Co-founder RAILMesa
What is civic engagement? How can you engage and empower people in your communities? Explore the idea that civic participation is not just important, but imperative for a community to be successful. Learn and reflect on how being an “engaged” citizen can play a meaningful role in discussions, decision-making and the implementation of projects and programs that take place within our schools, city councils, neighborhoods, polling places, and more. Join us for a FRANK Talk on civic engagement.

Tom Mix: King of the Cowboys - Lake Havasu City
2017-03-14 19:00 - 20:00 | Resized-MS-207-211-3-51-4
Tom Mix: King of the Cowboys
Cowboy movie star Tom Mix was internationally famous, and many legends and tall tales have been told about his life. This presentation highlights some of the true stories about Mix and his connection to Arizona, debunking some of the Hollywood hype. What brought Mix travel that lonesome highway where he met his death south of Florence? Find out about his childhood, the early years in show business, his multiple marriages and divorces, his career path, his presence in Arizona and the final hours of his life. A wide range of photographs and newspaper articles illustrate this larger than life legend.
Christine Reid is intrigued by Arizona’s diverse and rich western heritage as a writer and researcher at the Pinal County Historical Society and Community Scholar for the ASU Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She continues that deep interest while serving on many of the town of Florence’s heritage projects and agencies. Committed to sharing history in a lively manner, she presents the sometimes hidden or forgotten aspects of Arizona’s characters and history.

The Mighty Colorado River: From its Sources to the Sea - Yuma
2017-03-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Old City Hall Council Chambers, 180 W 1st St., Yuma, AZ, 85364, United States
The Mighty Colorado River: From its Sources to the Sea
Jim Turner has traced the Green and Colorado rivers from their beginnings as clear bubbling glacial springs high in the mountains, then through roaring canyons in Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, and finally to the salt flats in Mexico. Stunning photographs tell the story of the rivers’ two thousand miles of scenic wonders, geography, wildlife, history, recreation, politics, and local culture.
Before retiring from the Arizona Historical Society, Jim Turner worked with more than 70 museums in every corner of the state. He is co-author of the 4th-grade textbook The Arizona Story, and his pictorial history book, Arizona: Celebration of the Grand Canyon State, contains more than 530 images. Jim moved to Tucson in 1951, earned a M.A. in U.S. history from the University of Arizona, and has been researching and teaching Arizona history for more than 40 years.

The Food of Arizona: Many Cultures, Many Flavors - Bullhead City
2017-03-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Mohave Community College – Bullhead City Hargrove Library, 3400 HWY 95 - 700 Building, Bullhead City, AZ, 86442, United States
The Food of Arizona: Many Cultures, Many Flavors
Consider the taco, that favorite treat, a staple of Mexican and Mexican American cooking and an old standby on an Arizonan’s plate. The corn in the tortilla comes from Mexico, the cheese from the Sahara, the lettuce from Egypt, the onion from Syria, the tomatoes from South America, the chicken from Indochina, the beef from the steppes of Eurasia. The foods of Arizona speak to the many cultures, native and newcomer, that make up our state. Join Gregory McNamee, the author of Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food, in exploring these many traditions. A slide show accompanies this talk and that the host organization must provide a laptop, projector, and remote.
Gregory McNamee is a writer, editor, photographer, and publisher. He is the author of forty books and of more than five thousand articles and other publications. He is a contributing editor to the Encyclopædia Britannica, a research fellow at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona, and a lecturer in the Eller School of Management, also at the University of Arizona. For more about him, visit his web page at www.gregorymcnamee.com.

A Story, A Story: African and African American Oral Tradition and Storytelling - Lake Havasu
2017-03-02 16:00 - 17:00 | AZ
A Story, A Story: African and African American Oral Tradition and Storytelling
When the African slave was brought to the Caribbean and North and South America, s/he brought her oral literature and performance style. This presentation focuses on the transfer of those oral traditions from African culture to African American culture. Such traditions can be heard in trickster stories, but also observed in the narration of myths, folk tales, sermons, jokes, proverbs, folk sayings, signifying, capping, testifying, toasting, on street corners, in barbershops, in beauty shops, the blues, rapping and hip-hop. In demonstration of the connections between African and African American oral traditions, a variety of Ananse tales, African American proverbs and other verbal arts will be shared.
Akua Duku Anokye, is an Associate Professor of Africana Language, Literature, and Culture and Director of International Initiatives in Arizona State University’s New College is past chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), and past chair of the College Board’s Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Development Committee. Dr. Anokye’s research centers on African Diaspora orality and literacy practices, folklore, and oral history focusing on Ghanaian culture, religion, storytelling, and dance. Her current projects feature Arizona culture and life. She is working concurrently on “African American Pioneers of AZ” focusing on community mothers and “Telli.”

The Woman Who Shot Cowboys: Rodeo Photographer Louise L. Serpa - Parker
2017-03-01 13:00 - 17:00 | La Paz County Board of Supervisors, 1108 Joshua Ave, 85344, AZ, 85344, United States
The Woman Who Shot Cowboys: Rodeo Photographer Louise L. Serpa
Anyone who has ever stared down an angry bull coming full throttle across an arena will understand why rodeo photographer Louise Serpa often uttered the adage, “Never Don’t Pay Attention.” Born into New York society, Louise ended up out west with her nose buried in the dirt & her eye glued to a camera, becoming the first woman to venture inside the arena & shoot some of the most amazing photographs of rodeo action. The dust & dirt of the rodeo became Louise’s lifeblood for almost 50 years. This PowerPoint program demonstrates the courage & resolution of a woman who was determined to decide her own fate while ascending to the highest pinnacles of rodeo photography.

Instruments and Music of Arizona’s Pioneers - Parker
2017-01-26 13:00 - 14:30 | La Paz County Board of Supervisors, 1108 Joshua Ave, 85344, AZ, 85344, United States
The story of our state is not complete without music. This program will focus on the various genres of music that reflected the milieu and personalities of our various immigrants. Using musical instruments and stories, audience members will be presented an artistic tableau of our past: heroes, villains, and the immigrants who passed through and settled in Arizona. For example, Coronado’s priests unrolled musical missal leaves during Mass to facilitate finding the seven cities of gold. The Indigenous tribes he encountered also had rich sacred and secular musical traditions. It is possible to learn much about a people from what they sang and the instruments that accompanied.
Jay Craváth is a composer, writer, and scholar in the field of music and Indigenous studies. Dr. Craváth crafts programs from these interests into interactive discussions that include stories, musical performance, and illustrations/photography. His most recent publication is: The Mohave Book for Little Ones. Dr. Craváth is the Cultural Director for the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe.

The Life and Times of Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise - Yuma
2017-01-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Old City Hall Council Chambers, 180 W 1st St., Yuma, AZ, 85364, United States
Tom Jeffords grew up in Ashtabula, OH, without much education and was promoted to lake captain in his early twenties. The lure of making his fortune called Tom west to the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush, the San Juan Rush and to the Colorado River. He scouted and was dispatch rider for the Army during the Civil War and was present at its bloodiest battle. After the war, he prospected, scouted and helped start Tucson’s mail service. Along the way, he met Cochise, then the most feared Apache chief, and the two became friends so that he was able to guide General O.O. Howard to the chief and negotiate peace.
Doug Hocking is an independent scholar who has completed advanced studies in American history, ethnology and historical archaeology. He is a retired Army officer who has lived among the Jicarilla Apache and paisanos of the Rio Arriba (Northern New Mexico). He writes both fiction and history and is currently working on a biography of Tom Jeffords and has two historical novels in print: Massacre at Point of Rocks and Mystery of Chaco Canyon.

The Mighty Colorado River: From its Sources to the Sea - Lake Havasu City
2017-01-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Resized-MS-207-211-3-51-4
Jim Turner has traced the Green and Colorado rivers from their beginnings as clear bubbling glacial springs high in the mountains, then through roaring canyons in Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, and finally to the salt flats in Mexico. Stunning photographs tell the story of the rivers’ two thousand miles of scenic wonders, geography, wildlife, history, recreation, politics, and local culture.
Before retiring from the Arizona Historical Society, Jim Turner worked with more than 70 museums in every corner of the state. He is co-author of the 4th-grade textbook The Arizona Story, and his pictorial history book, Arizona: Celebration of the Grand Canyon State, contains more than 530 images. Jim moved to Tucson in 1951, earned a M.A. in U.S. history from the University of Arizona, and has been researching and teaching Arizona history for more than 40 years.
