There’s a high personal price paid by some journalists of color working at mainstream news organizations, particularly television, where more than just your reporting skills are being judged. African American […]
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African-American Builders of Topeka Exhibit on Display
The Topeka & Shawnee Public County Libraries, held the opening of the exhibit “African American Builders of Topeka” on Jan 19 in the Alice C Sabatini Art Gallery. The content […]
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Mt. Carmel: Rebuilding a Church and a Community
Commercial developments like the Legends and the NASCAR Speedway are the obvious crown jewels of West Kansas City, KS development, but the focus of Eastern Kansas City, KS has been […]
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Trumps Plan to Make Medicare Recipients Work is Just KANCARE 2.0
While the rest of the country wrestles with the ideal of making people who receive Medicaid work or lose their benefits, the concept is not new in Kansas. It’s just […]
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What to Expect in the 2018 Legislative Session
The 90-day 2018 Kansas Legislative session is underway, and this year will once again be a tough one with the legislature still struggling to find a way to fund the […]
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USD 259 Program Putting the Student in Student Athlete
It’s a decades old phenomenon: boys excelling on the athletic field but failing in the classroom and It’s a particularly troublesome issue in the African-American community. The dream for so […]
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Essence Magazine Black-Owned Again
Business magazines and social media were buzzing this past week with news about the purchase of Essence Magazine by a company headed by Liberian-businessman Richelieu Dennis. The magazine had been […]
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What’s Up With the Growing Interest in Black Super Heroes?
This year America is excited about the reemergence of the Black super hero. This week, the CW rolled out a new show featuring DC comic strip character Black Lightening and […]
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NAACP Calls for Lawmaker Who Said Black ‘Genetics’ Led to Pot Prohibition to Resign
Followed briefly by Pres. Donald Trump’s reported “sX$@hole” countries statement, comments by KS Rep. Steve Alford questioning the genetic makeup of African Americans faded quickly from the media focus. But, […]