The 68th Annual Debutante Ball hosted by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Beta Omega Chapter, and the Ivy Community Service and Education Foundation, Inc. (ICSEF) in Kansas City, MO, will […]
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Biden, Harris addressing Black America During Virtual Black History Month Celebration
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris will be hosting this year’s Black History Month Celebration which will be virtual because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Singer-songwriter Anthony Hamilton and the St. Augustine Choir will […]
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Kansas Meatpacking Workers Faced Outbreak After Outbreak, But Still Can’t Get A COVID Vaccine
Thousands of meatpacking workers in southwest Kansas continue to wait for any news about when they’ll get the COVID-19 vaccine. That wait drags on even as some counties vaccinate college […]
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Kansas Senate Bill Forces All K-12 Students Back To In-School Instruction in March
TOPEKA — Two influential K-12 education organizations in Kansas perked up when the Senate’s education committee agreed to dive into a bill mandating in-person instruction resume by March 26 and […]
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Game Changing One Dose Vaccine Arriving to Kansas Shortly
WASHINGTON — States struggling to provide enough COVID-19 vaccines are likely just a few days away from a pivotal development in the vaccination race: the availability of a shot that […]
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KCK was a Hotbed for the Klan in the 1920s
Like a prairie fire, a revived Ku Klux Klan (KKK) spread across the nation in the 1920s, enrolling 6 million White, native-born Protestants into its ranks. Promoting “100 Percent Americanism,” […]
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The White Church: On Slavery, Lynchings and Racism
“A lot us know a little bit about the history of the free-state movement for Kansas. Maybe we even think of Kansas as a place that really stood up in […]
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Obscure History of Black Lynchings in Kansas and Missouri
A swarm of perhaps 100 White men forced their way into the Douglas County Jail in Lawrence to grab George Robertson, Isaac King and Pete Vinegar from their cells and […]
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BHFOD 25: Inez Kaiser, the First Black Woman to Open a National PR Firm
Inez Kaiser, born in Kansas City, KS in 1918, began her career teaching home economics after graduating from Pittsburg State Teachers College in southeast Kansas, but soon after she became […]
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Strengthen the Vine First Fridays Set to Return March 5
After Strengthen the Vine First Fridays was cut short last year due to COVID-19, excitement is building for its return this year. First Fridays at the 18th and Vine Jazz […]