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A former slave came to Kansas and conquered the competitive business of growing... potatoes. Junius Groves, of Edwardsville, earned millions growing his crop. So, move over Idaho potato growers, Commentator Katie Keckeisen tells us more about this forgotten farmer.
Wikipedia, which seemingly has an entry for everything, lacks information on historic Black Kansas Citians. The Kansas City Library is mobilizing a group of volunteers to fix that.
“I sing their names . . .,” writes Kansas City poet Glenn North. His words are one of several contemporary voices joined in a new, 44-page book that collects the more than 70 biographies that the Kansas City Black History Project team has researched and shared with the Kansas City community since 2010. “I sing of… Langston and Parker, Ms. Bluford and Mary Lou, Old Buck, Leon Jordan, Horace and Bruce . . .” Every year, the project told the stories behind seven or eight of the names hidden by time. It gathered them in booklets and posters that were given to schools, libraries and othe...