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photo by: Mike Yoder/Journal World Photo Restoration work began again Monday on the St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church, 900 New York, as part of a historic preservation project. A crew from The GKW Group - masonry restoration specialists from Kansas City, Mo., was working on the exterior brick walls and chimneys on the south and east sides. Additional restoration work is underway on the brick masonry of a historic Black church in East Lawrence thanks to a generous response to fundraising efforts. The Rev. Verdell Taylor, of St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church, said workers are now tuck-pointing the brick veneer on the east and south sides of the church built in 1910 and anchoring the brick veneer where it has pulled away from the underlying wood frame. Several fundraising sources made the work possible on the church, 900 New York St., which is on state and national registers of historic places. ....
photo by: Mike Yoder/Journal-World File Photo A flock of birds glides over a field east of Evergy s Lawrence Energy Center, on a cold morning, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Earlier this month as rolling power blackouts crawled across Kansas, a couple of numbers stuck in the minds of residents: 20 below zero and 1 hour. The first was the outside temperature in many parts of the state. The second was the maximum amount of time that Evergy, the state’s largest electric utility, originally had estimated any home would be without power during the winter storm. Those estimates ended up being wrong. A literal arctic blast across the central U.S. was threatening a figurative meltdown of the region’s power grid. The rolling blackouts planned, temporary outages of power that move from one neighborhood to the next were the main weapon for warding off a collapse of the power grid that stretches from the Dakotas to Texas. ....
Staff Report photo by: Conrad Swanson/Journal-World File Photo A sign at the entrance to Haskell Indian Nations University is shown Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. Haskell Indian Nations University’s new Hiawatha Center for Justice is hosting an online forum Thursday about the Black American experience. Kevin Willmott, an Academy-Award winning screenwriter and University of Kansas film and media studies professor, will host a discussion about the past and present injustices Black Americans face, and what steps can be taken to create institutions that embrace systemic justice. Willmott will be joined by two other panelists: Randal Jelks, an award-winning author and KU professor of American Studies and African and African-American Studies, and Alex Kimball Williams, a community activist and health equity planner with Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. ....
Formula 1 design legend Gordon Murray has named the new trackday version of his forthcoming T.50 supercar in honour of three-time world champion Niki Lauda ....
photo by: Screenshot // Haskell Indian Leader Clockwise from top-left, Reia Whiteside, Terrance Little John, Russell Parker and Keiton Guess shared their experience being Black and Native American in a Thursday night event put on by Haskell Indian Nations University s student newspaper, The Indian Leader. Four former Haskell Indian Nations University students who are both Black and Native American called for the university to implement diversity training and hire more multiracial faculty and staff in a panel discussion on Thursday night. The panelists participated in a virtual event put on by the student newspaper, The Indian Leader, called “A Conversation on being Native American and Black.” They said the color of their skin made them an “other,” despite attending a university with a diverse mix of cultures. ....