According to the National Center for Education Statistics, African-American children, children in urban districts, and children born in poverty are at the highest risk of dropping out of school. Those who drop out report a low sense of belonging and engagement in school.
“With the city reopening and the numbers going down for Missouri, it does give a positive indicator that we’ll be able to have a great 10-year celebration,” Peterson said. Her father, Horace Peterson III, founder of the Black Archives of Mid-America, brought Juneteenth celebrations to Kansas…
To attract more young people to the club and the broader equestrian world, later this summer the club will begin offering a free, six-week course called “Horsing Around” for individuals eight-years-old and up to learn the basics of horse riding.
Natasha Fuller began the nonprofit Show Me Riders Horse Club in 2013 to share the numerous benefits of introducing children to horsemanship and to help eliminate many of the barriers that prevent access to horse riding in the inner city.
Gateway Highsteppers Drill Team performing in front of judges
National Congress of Black Women Midwest Area chapter greeting spectators
Staff from Doo Moo Designs Boutique, based in Independence marched in the parade. The boutique sells handmade apparel, accessories, hand bags and jewelry.
Members of the Omicron Xi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. strolled through the parade.
The reborn Kansas City Monarchs passed out candy and Monarchs merch. The baseball team's next home game is June 15 at 7 p.m.
Members of the Twin Citians held signs up recapping the many organizations in Kansas City that picketed to desegregate the department store restaurants.
President of the Twin Citians, Dianna Kolen waves to the crowd waiting in the Jazz District. The Twin Citians social club was founded in 1943 and was key in desegregating the downtown department store restaurants.
Wes Hamilton, founder of Disabled But Not Really drove through the parade in his Mercedes Benz with a license plate that reads, "DISABLDAF." Hamilton was on season four of the Netflix show Queer Eye, where his story of surviving gun shot wounds that left him in a wheel chair was featured.
A number of drill teams and dance teams, including Reign KC, the Pryme Time Steppers and Superior Motive Dance Company kept the parade upbeat.
About 10 members of the Corvette Connected Vette Club drove through the parade.
The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas City showcased posters of what Black culture means to them.
Staff member from Doo Moo Boutique, an Independence-based boutique that sells handmade jewelry, apparel and hand bags.
More than 50 cars, motorcycles and ATVs lined up for the peace ride at Grove Park and caravanned to Harris Park at 40th and Wayne Street.
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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the efforts of the local League of Women Voters to inform voters and increase turnout took a new form, and perhaps greater urgency.
After an unprecedented school year where administrators where administrators were forced to quickly rethink the model for educating 50,000 K-12 students, USD 259 Supt. Alicia Thompson sat down with Bonita Gooch, editor-in-chief of The Community Voice to discuss, successes and failures of the…
Training Officer Chris Nixon demostrates the use of WPD's new tech - the Wrap Restraint System; used for combative individuals.
Training Officer Chris Nixon, explains how police academy recruits in Sedgwick County are trained to takedown individuals resisting arrest.
Welcome to a series of conversations about dealing with different aspects of the health crisis. We'll be adding more, so be sure to check back!
Survival Series: Surviving the Pandemic
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It’s one of The Community Voice's most popular contests - our 12th Annual Mother-Daughter Look-a-Like Contest!
Community members share their experiences of coping with the pandemic and economic crisis.
The Community Voice editor-in-chief Bonita Gooch and Barb Upton, founder of P2 Consulting, discuss ideas and tips for finding a job in the midst of a pandemic. Read the executive summary HERE.
California transplant Ashley Martin says "Ya'll not taking this serious."
We found Bluez Li in downtown Wichita on his bike. He says he's not shook but he is bad as H*?L about how alot of things in relation to the quarantine virus.
Veteran Delisa Portley and her service dog Lunabelle share how Pres. Trump's pushing of a Lupus drug as a cure for COVID-19 in impacting her.
Survival Series Part 3 This time with a survivor of COVID-19. She shares how close to the end it got, her two-week stay in the hospital, symptoms and what she says is the worse of it. See this is and other survival series videos @ communityvoiceks.com.
The Survival Series: Surviving the 2020 Pandemic. Angie Franklin, manager of Communities United Federal Credit Union visits with Community Voice editor Bonita Gooch from a community-based banker’s perspective on dealing economically during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Gordon Parks Foundation has generously allowed the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City to display his photographs of Muhammad Ali. The photos were taken between 1966 and 1970; in various locations around the world, Parks captured Ali's life in vivid and undiluted truth.
Thanks to everyone who entered this year, those who voted online for our People’s Choice Award and to our celebrity judges who picked our other winners from a tough group of competitors.
The 8th Annual Art That Touches Your Heart (ATTYH) was held at Wichita State’s Rhatigan Student Center on Feb. 22 & 23.
The Historic Northeast Midtown Association in Kansas City, KS, held its annual Chili Cook-Off on March 1 at Nefertiti’s Restaurant and Banquet Hall, 13th & Quindaro, KCK.
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The number of Missouri deaths from COVID-19 reported since Jan. 1 has exceeded the number reported during 2020.
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The team behind the redesign of Chester I. Lewis Reflection Square Park has released conceptual plans for the new park this week. The park will serve as an entryway to the new Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine School while highlighting the life and legacy of one of Wichita's most promin…