When Rebecca Myers sees young African Americans embracing the Black Lives Matter Movement, she’s pleased. She’s glad they’re showing an interest in social and civil rights issues of today. It’s […]
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Children’s Literacy Focus of StoryTime Village Festival
The Annual Kansas Children’s Literacy Conference & Festival, held over four days, focused on StoryTimeVillage‘s goal of inspiring a lifelong love of reading in children. Activities began on Oct. 25 […]
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NAACP Calling for Applicants to Fill District 3 Opening on School Board
There is a vacancy on Wichita’s USD 259 School Board and the district and the Wichita Branch NAACP is encouraging African Americans residents to apply. Barb Fuller, a former educator […]
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African American Preacher Co-Produces New Animated Holiday Film
“The Star,” in theaters this Friday, is a new take on a well known story, the first Christmas. A refreshingly different animated film, it’s a movie that actually puts the […]
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Honorary Oscar Surprises Acclaimed African American Film Director
Legendary Black film maker Charles Burnett joins the small group of African American artists who can add “Oscar recipient” to their resumes. To the general public Burnett may be a […]
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Study Reports Annual Economic Benefits of HBCUs at 4.8 Billion
The nation’s HBCUs generate $14.8 billion in economic impact annually; that’s equivalent to a ranking in the top 200 on the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations and they […]
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Americans are Officially Freaking Out and Can’t Sleep
For those lying awake at night worried about health care, the economy, and an overall feeling of divide between you and your neighbors, there’s at least one source of comfort: […]
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Push on to Fund Brown Mural in Kansas Capitol by February 2018
How long is too long? Well according to supporters of a mural to be erected in the Kansas Capitol commemorating the 1954 Supreme Court Decision of Brown v the Topeka […]
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Judge Rules in Favor of Maryland HBCUs
In what could prove to be the culmination of a lawsuit stretching back to 2006, a federal judge has decided to appoint a third party to address segregation imposed upon […]
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How Black Women Helped Shape Sexual Harassment Laws
Anita Hill’s testimony against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991 remains perhaps the most famous sexual-harassment case in American history. When she worked for him in the Education […]