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Posts Tagged ‘Black Lives Matter’

Cameron Lamb Case Stirs Emotions of Those Who Have Lost Loved Ones in Police Shootings

By | December 14, 2021 | 0
Neriha Stokes, the daughter of Ryan Stokes, participated in a vigil for her late father Friday, July 24. Ryan Stokes was shot by an KC police officer on July 28, 2013.

Families that have lost loved ones in police shootings have been both encouraged and retraumatized by the recent Cameron Lamb case.

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Students Want to Learn ‘History As It Is, As it Was’

By | November 23, 2021 | 0
From left to right: Sanaa Best, senior at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy; Tymia Morgan, teacher at Center High School; and Jude Anderson, senior at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy.

Increasingly, K-12 classrooms have become hotbeds for debate about what should or should not be taught, especially when it centers around race and history. Students and educators share their thoughts.

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Critical Race Theory: War of Words, and Curriculums

By | November 18, 2021 | 0
School books

Suburban school districts are grappling with how to teach race in education, becoming ground zero in an increasingly politicized fight over critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

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Once-Segregated Cemetery Gets Memorial for Hundreds of People in Unmarked Graves

By | August 20, 2021 | 0
Shelton Ponder (left) and Harold Phillips, co-chairs of the Liberty African American Legacy Memorial project, stand in a formerly segregated portion of Fairview and New Hope Cemetery, where ground will be broken for the memorial on Saturday.

The Liberty African American Legacy Memorial seeks to memorialize 758 people interred – most of them in unmarked graves – in the once-segregated section of what is now Fairview and New Hope Cemetery in Liberty.

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Local Lynching Memorial Perseveres Despite Backlash

By | July 30, 2021 | 0
Bluff Street Bridge, 1894.

The Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City is collaborating with the Equal Justice Initiative to collect jars of soil from the site of every lynching in Missouri.

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