This past Sunday we hosted our first “Pop-Up Grocery Buyout” — we showed up unannounced at Wild Woody’s Food Center on 31st Street and stood at the cash register and paid for Black people’s groceries until we ran out of money.
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into the Kansas City Police Department citing racial discrimination. But the investigation only looks into discrimination against officers, and not the murders, lies and coverups KCPD has inflicted against the community.
In an anti-democratic, authoritarian trend, Kansas City's City Hall continues to silence, arrest and "make impossible" proper public engagement.
From Caribbean and Ethiopian to Cajun or a Chai Latte, we've curated a short list of 7 must-visit Black owned restaurants in Kansas City.
Summit Waves, a popular water park in Lee's Summit Missouri, is receiving scathing viral attention after a group of Black teens arrived for a party that was booked a month prior, and were denied access due to what the party-goers say is "definitely related to racism".
An exclusive interview with Chairman Yeshitela just a day after his home was raided and he and his wife survived a violent attack by the FBI.
The Assistant Principal at Olathe East High School “was mostly likely shot” by Erik Clark, the school cop, and not by the Black student Jaylon Elmore.
KC Muslim Civic Initiative is hosting a vigil in remembrance of Rezwan Kohistani, a recently resettled Afghan teen who was found hung on the grounds of his high school in Webb City, Missouri.
Sleazyworld GO is arguably the hottest upcoming hip hop artist in the country right now after going viral on TikTok with his major hit “Sleazy Flow.”
The park takeover was more reminiscent of a community program by the 1960’s Black Panther Party than an event hosted by a news outlet.
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