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What Hays' history, 'Noose Road' say about Kansas and race | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas

David Condos, Kansas News Service Hays — On the night of Jan. 6, 1869, Luke Barnes, Lee Watkins and James Ponder sat in jail accused of shooting a white railroad worker in this northwest Kansas town. By sunrise, the three Black men had been dragged from their cell by a mob of white townspeople and hanged from a railroad trestle over the creek that separates the town from Fort Hays, where the men were stationed in the U.S. Army. A Leavenworth newspaper reported that the town “indulged them in a dance in mid-air.” One hundred and twenty years later — in 1989 — the county commission gave a 5-mile stretch of road near that bridge a new name drawn from that ugly history: Noose Road.

What The History Of 'Noose Road' Tells Us About Kansas, Race And The Lynchings Of Black Men

Kansas City Black History Project releases free book on the city's complicated past

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

Kansas City Partnership Highlights Local Black History

Surging Interest in African American Genealogy

Surging Interest in African American Genealogy Surging Interest in African American Genealogy Here Are Resources in Kansas City to Get Started Share this story Published February 18th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: The Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition holds monthly meetings and members go on yearly road trips of historical significance. Here is the group at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka. (Contributed | Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition) A family reunion in 2008 first sparked Wayne Reed’s interest in genealogy. But it was a move in 2013 to Kansas City that gave Reed the resources that fired his resolve to learn more. Reed’s efforts since have produced a family tree with one branch reaching back to 1824.

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Kansas City-area organizations prepare for city's proposed funding cuts

Kansas City-area organizations prepare for city's proposed funding cuts Proposed Kansas City budget could impact local organizations and last updated 2021-02-11 18:35:16-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Several Kansas City-area organizations ranging from legal aid to cultural arts, will lose funding if a proposed budget for fiscal years 2021-2022 goes through. These organizations are waiting to find out how much is on the chopping block. "We will suffer," Carmaletta Williams, executive director of the These words will likely ring true with any organization facing funding cuts. The Black Archives, along with Arts KC, the Kansas City Zoo, Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Visit KC, Starlight Theater and the Kansas City Film Office are on the list.

For Black History Month, A Way To Honor More Kansas Citians Who Deserve 'To Be Remembered'

The New York City Library Digital Collections A crowd gathered for the 1914 cornerstone laying at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri. Stories of the most famous African Americans from Kansas City are well told, but the work of many more community members often goes unrecognized. When it comes to the history of the African American community in Kansas City, almost everyone knows the big names — people like jazz great Charlie Parker or baseball legend Buck O’Neil, who are both memorialized in countless ways around the metro. “But that’s just a small number of the people who worked together and individually to build life and culture for Black Americans,” said Carmaletta Williams, executive director of the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City.

Northeast News | Kansas City Partners Team Up for Black History Month Project

Local groups are partnering on a special edition of an annual local Black history project in conjunction with Missouri’s bicentennial.  Kansas City’s Local Investment Commission (LINC), the Kansas City Public Library, the Black Archives of Mid-America, and the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center are releasing a compilation of 73 biographies of Black Kansas Citians who helped shape the community through education, activism, entrepreneurship, and many other ways. The new publication spotlights individuals featured in commemorative booklets over the past 11 years, adding new honorees and remarks by current Black leaders in Kansas City. In their short essays, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick, and Black Archives Executive Director Dr. Carmaletta Williams reflect on their own experiences and make connections to the historical figures featured in the book. A new poem from Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center Executive Director Glenn North, and an essay from activist Justice Horn are also featured in the booklet.