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Posts Tagged ‘Racial Justice’

For Latinos in the Midwest, Playing Ball was More than Just a Game

By | September 3, 2021 | 0
“¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas” will be on display at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum from Aug. 21 through Nov. 14. (Collage by Vicky Diaz-Camacho | Images from Kansas Historical Society, Gene Chavez and Vicky Diaz-Camacho)

A Smithsonian traveling exhibit now at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City showcases the contribution of Hispanic leagues.

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Advocates Urge Lawmakers to Focus on Inequity in Education, Not Critical Race Theory

By | August 24, 2021 | 0
Rep. Doug Richey, R-Excelsior Springs, and Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, during a Joint Committee on Education hearing on critical race theory on July 19, 2021.

Educators, students and advocates urged state lawmakers Monday afternoon to focus on tackling larger issues of inequity across education rather than latch onto the academic concept of critical race theory

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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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In Kansas City, Restaurant Revitalization Funds Flowed to Whiter, More Affluent Areas

By | August 18, 2021 | 0
Nika Cotton makes a drink at Soulcentricitea, which she opened on Troost Ave. last July. Cotton applied for a grant from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, but did not receive any money.

Local businesses received a total of $53 million from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. But few of those dollars flowed east of Troost.

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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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