Foundations Buoy a New Movement of Renters' Activism
Instead of focusing mainly on ways to help low- and middle-class people buy affordable housing, grant makers are paying for community organizing and advocacy designed to protect renters.
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Instead of focusing mainly on ways to help low- and middle-class people buy affordable housing, grant makers are paying for community organizing and advocacy designed to protect renters.
Following national uproar over the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, protesters are showing up in Kansas City's Northland, the federal courthouse and KCPD headquarters. Here's what you need to know when you're organizing or attending a protest in Kansas City.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, District Attorney Larry Krasner and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro have placed friendly bets against officials in Kansas City, Missouri ahead of Super Bowl LVII on Sunday, Feb. 12, when the Eagles will take on the Chiefs for a chance at the Lombardi Trophy.
City leaders presented community members with an official proclamation marking May as AAPI Heritage Month in Kansas City
'KC has your back': City celebrates May as Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Cortlynn Stark, The Kansas City Star May 9—In front of a crowd of well over 100 people, Bety Le Shackelford spoke Vietnamese publicly for the second time in her life. It was the only language spoken at home when she was a child. And when she started preschool at age 3, all she heard was gibberish as she tried to understand her teachers and classmates. She begged her mom to only speak English, especially in public. But on Saturday, as she emceed at the KC Asian American Pacific Islander ...