In Honor of MLK: East to West is Best

By | July 9, 2018
This is 63rd Street facing West at the corner of 63rd and Tracey one block east of Troost in Kansas City. MO.

I won’t presume to know why, 50 years after his death, we haven’t named a street after Martin Luther King Jr. in Kansas City, Missouri. Despite its broad support across ethnic lines, former Mayors Ilus Davis, Charles Wheeler, Dick Berkley, Emanuel Cleaver, Kay Barnes and Mark Funkhouser haven’t been able to do it. Recently, the…

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Which Schools Are Integrated?

By | August 7, 2017 |
An apple divided in half

Lisa Gooden was set on finding the right school for her children in Kansas City. The choices were complex — public, private, charter, signature — but she felt good about all the buildings she visited. There were probably a dozen or so public elementaries within a couple miles of her neighborhood, so she didn’t understand…

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