Commentary | The Sky is Not Falling

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The sky is not falling. It just seems that it is because we have an image and a video of a falling sky that shows up on our mobile devices. And on our favorite cable stations. Maybe our friends and family are even texting us, warning about the falling sky. Then there’s an abundance of…

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National Cathedral Will Remove Confederate Flags From Stained Glass

Stained glass windows with Confederate Flags

The Washington National Cathedral says it will remove two images of the Confederate battle flag from the building’s stained glass windows. Then the church will hold a period of public discussion on issues of race, slavery and justice, and revisit the question of how to treat other depictions of the Civil War on the windows.…

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Recruiting to Fight Social Injustices

Pastor Michael Brooks

Michael Brooks recalls witnessing racism in Kansas City at a young age. Growing up at 37th and Benton Boulevard, a wealthy neighborhood “filled with doctors and lawyers,” the former councilman and senior pastor of Zion Grove Missionary Baptist Church said he started kindergarten in 1967 at then-affluent Sanford B. Ladd Elementary. Then, he said, it…

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Back Into the ‘Underground’

During dress rehearsal Wednesday night, co-choreographer Tobin James of Storling Dance Theater’s “Underground” at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts struggled to speak. Sick, exhausted, her voice shot, she breathed deep as she watched the final rehearsal from a dark corner offstage. Twenty rows back in the sixteen hundred seat auditorium, co-choreographer Mona Enna…

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“It’s the right thing to do.”

University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe, shown in this file photo, resigned this morning after months of tension and protests from campus groups who have been protesting the way Wolfe has dealt with issues of racial harassment during the school year. (Photo: Jeff Roberson | AP)

During a press conference this morning, University of Missouri system president Tim Wolfe stepped down in an emotional speech after weeks of mounting pressure from students and faculty for the university to tackle race issues. “To our students…to our football players and other students, the frustration and anger I see is real. And I don’t doubt it,”…

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