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Posts Tagged ‘Race’

Racism at the Root of Kansas City Health Disparities, New Plan Concludes

By | June 22, 2021 | 0
Person receiving an injection.

Kansas City’s new Community Health Improvement Plan is focusing more attention on the connection between racism and life expectancy disparities.

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9 Kansas City Residents Share What Being Asian Means to Them

By | May 31, 2021 | 0
Hear from 9 Kansas City residents on what their identity means to them and their work

This is a snapshot of the many people in the community who shape and move the city as we know it.

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Kansas City’s Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Makes Itself Heard

By | March 31, 2021 | 0
"Our goal as a coffee shop and our goal as Asian Americans is to have unity with Asian people here and people of other colors to unify everybody," said Cafe manager Madoka Koguchi. (Nicole Dolan | Flatland)

Kansas City’s vigil at Cafe Cà Phê to grieve the victims of the Atlanta shooting sought to create the intimacy and the reverence of an at-home vigil in a space large enough to fit the whole Asian American-Pacific Islander community.

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This St. Louis Artist Found Connection in a Time of Disconnection

By | November 25, 2020 | 0
Cami Thomas is a native to St. Louis. Her recent work is part of the Reflect / Project series at the Mid-America Arts Alliance

Câmi Thomas didn’t expect to find connection or inspiration during a pandemic, but her latest work is a result of community support and honest conversations.

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Rosemary Lowe Remembered as the ‘Strong, Proud Voice of a Movement’

By | September 24, 2020 | 0
Rosemary Lowe

Rosemary Smith Lowe broke color barriers in a segregated city, forged Black political power, raised up neighborhoods and, even in her 70s, could stand as a fulcrum of peace between police and angry youths.

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