Social Justice

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

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

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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inside of police car on patrol

Most Wanted In Kansas City: More Police Recruits

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

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"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 Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Makes Itself Heard

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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The pandemic recession cost women and LGBTQ+ people more, data show. (Adobe Spark image)

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

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

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South Park Elementary School in Merriam, Kansas.

Meet Two Kansas Women Who Helped Integrate South Park Elementary School

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

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