Black history feels palpably
now. We’ve been witness to more than 8,000 multi-generational, multi-racial demonstrations for Black lives since this summer. Our nation’s first Black female Vice President now lives in the White House, and the Deep South just sent its first Black U.S. Senator to Congress. We’re in the midst of what
How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi calls a Black Renaissance.
For those of us who think history is made in other times by other people, the Kansas City Black History project aims to set the record straight. Black history is not only
3 Kansas City metro counties end curfew for restaurants and bars as COVID rates drop
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Updated: 3:14 PM CST Feb 23, 2021 KMBC 9 News Staff Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, Walmart and the YMCA of Greater Kansas City announced Tuesday a COVID-19 vaccine partnership beginning this weekend and occurring each week for the next six weeks, which will vaccinate more than 3,500 eligible Kansas Citians in ZIP codes with the lowest life expectancy. According to a news release from KCMO, Walmart will host these vaccination clinics at a Kansas City YMCA, utilizing a vaccine allotment provided directly to Walmart by the federal government. The release said these vaccines do not pull from, nor will alter, Kansas City’s weekly vaccine allotment from the State of Missouri.According to Lucas’ office, eligible Kansas Citians will be notified of this vaccination opportunity by the Kansas City Health Department. For safety and security reasons, the particular YMCA location will be disclosed only to those eligible to receive a vaccine through this partnership.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Mr. Alvin Brooks Discusses Autobiography With Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas
For anyone who really wants to understand the history of urban leadership in Kansas City, this is a worthwhile and essential conversation.
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Alvin Brooks’ mark on civil rights history in Kansas City – on the city’s history in total – is indelible. Born into poverty and a racist society, he became a trailblazing police officer and detective, city councilman, and mayor pro tem. Amid decades of advocacy for equal rights, violence prevention, and criminal justice, he founded the AdHoc Group Against Crime and chaired the local chapter of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).