“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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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.
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.
Everidge and Janice Cade, Ralph C. Johnson, CPA, and Bernice Meeks were the top honorees at the 39th Annual Black Men and Women of Distinction Award Ceremony held Sun., Feb. 24, at Friends of Yates, 1418 Garfield Ave., Kansas City, KS.
Eta Beta Lambda and Delta Mu Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, held their 22nd Annual Dr. Evies O. Cranford Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities Scholarship Banquet on Feb. 23 at the Hyatt.
- Sponsored by the Kansas City Kansas Chapter of the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters
