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That Kansas City has had this report for more than 40 years and still does not have programming around creating equity through economic development in these specific ways is a clear example of that.
Kansas City Black Restaurant Week runs from Sept. 2-11 and is a chance to support local businesses, check out a Black-owned restaurant you haven’t been to yet and revisit old favorites. See the ...
Black & Veatch (BV) is a global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company based in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Founded in 1915 in Kansas City, Missouri it is now headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. It specializes in infrastructure development in power, oil and gas, water, telecommunications, government, mining ...
Through Oct. 14, more than a dozen Black-owned restaurants will band together to help support Willa’s Books and Vinyl, the city’s longest standing Black-owned bookstore. Not only is it vital ...
The Southmoreland section of the Rockhill District was conceived in the late 19th century by Kansas City Star publisher and real estate developer William Rockhill Nelson and mining magnate August Meyer, as Kansas City's neighborhood of palatial mansions. [2]
The Black Archives of Mid-America is an archive that collects and preserves materials documenting the political, social and cultural histories of persons of African American descent in the central United States, with a focus on the Kansas City, Missouri region. The Black Archives of Mid-America honors the African-American community heritage of ...
Kansas was not immune from Jim Crow segregation, race riots, white supremacy and violence from racist white people. Newspapers have documented incidents of white people lynching a black man in Fort Scott and white mobs attacking black Americans held in jails in Leavenworth, Topeka, and Kansas City. [6] In 1954, Brown v.
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