When 5th District councilwoman Ryana Parks-Shaw found out about the life expectancy gap between residents living in certain Kansas City ZIP codes, she knew she had to do something about […]
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Newly Formed KC Bail-Out Group Successful After Its First Year in Action
Dawn Oliver, co-founder of the bail-out nonprofit group Operation Liberation, says she still receives check-in phone calls every couple of weeks from a young man she helped bail out of […]
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Wichita’s 316 Hotel on Broadway to Become Home for Vulnerable Residents
• Public/private partnership brings affordable housing project to North Broadway’s troubled area. Public and private funds will help transform the 316 Hotel at 1011 N. Topeka into a 56-unit supportive […]
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New City Manager Starts Today Amid Racial Discrimination Accusations
On Kansas City’s new city manager Brian Platt’s first day this morning, protesters gathered at city hall demanding he be fired after it was revealed that he and eight Jersey […]
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Pressure is on to Replace Kamala Harris With a Black Woman
If pressure is on Joe Biden to appoint more Blacks to his cabinet, can you imagine the pressure on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill the Senate seat being vacated […]
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Oprah Chimes in to Support Black Businesses for Holiday Shopping
Here’s another way to help you support Black-owned businesses this season. Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Oprah is out with her Favorite Things list and this year, […]
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Michael B. Jordan 4th Black Man in Five Years Selected PEOPLE’s ‘Sexiest Man
The beauty of Black women gained broader recognition with the growing number of them holding popular beauty titles. The fact was reinforced in 2018 when Black women held all of […]
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Fashionetta 2020 Will Survive the Pandemic With Televised Gala
In a most unusual year for all, 10 African American high school senior women from the Wichita area will be presented virtually to the community as they compete in the […]
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Churches Liberate Kansas, Oklahoma Residents of .2M in Medical Debt
The Rev. Traci Blackmon counts each modest contribution to an ambitious United Church of Christ program aiding people trapped by medical debt in Kansas and Oklahoma as a gospel-infused demand […]
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Biden’s Lack of Black Appointments to Cabinet Level Positions Isn’t Going Over Well
During his acceptance speech, President-elect Joe Biden spoke directly to Black Americans, and that meant something. “The African-American community stood up again for me. You’ve always had my back, and […]