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Posts Tagged ‘Social Justice’

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

By | May 27, 2021 | 0
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.

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Most Wanted In Kansas City: More Police Recruits

By | May 12, 2021 | 0
inside of police car on patrol

The Kansas City Police Department is struggling to fill more than 200 open positions.

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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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Stories of Pandemic Unemployment: ‘It … Eats Away at You’

By | March 18, 2021 | 0
The pandemic recession cost women and LGBTQ+ people more, data show. (Adobe Spark image)

Low wages, risky jobs put LGBTQ+ People, BIPOC and women in the economic line of fire pre- and post-pandemic.

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Meet Two Kansas Women Who Helped Integrate South Park Elementary School

By | March 11, 2021 | 0
South Park Elementary School in Merriam, Kansas.

Recalling a landmark Johnson County school integration case that came before Brown v. Board of Education.

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