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Tracing Kansas City’s Ties to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

By | May 27, 2021 |

The ruins of "Black Wall Street" after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre sent ripples that could be felt in Kansas City. Flatland explores the sometimes surprising local links to arguably the most serious, yet little known, race crime in U.S. history.

Kansas City’s Surprising Connection to Japanese Internment Camps

By | May 12, 2021 |

College-age Japanese American students were allowed to leave internment camps and were enrolled at Park College in 1942.

College-aged Japanese American students were allowed to leave World War II internment camps to be enrolled at Park College in 1942.

‘We Are Significant’: Resources in Response to Violence Against Asian Americans

By | March 24, 2021 |

Demonstrators hold signs during a press conference calling to a halt on violence against Asian Americans

A PBS employee reflects on the response to recent attacks on Asian Americans in Atlanta, Georgia.

curiousKC | Parkville Reckons With Its Storied Past

By | December 21, 2020 |

Archival photos are laid on a tan piece of paper, denoting how our journalist traced down the history of Parkville.

In 1956, Pearl Spencer was one of the first Black students to enroll in Parkville’s newly integrated high school. Spencer and her siblings still vividly remember their experiences growing up Black in Parkville – the good, the bad and the ugly. A reader asked curiousKC to look into who lives in what was once the…