Ryan S.

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Ryan has a diverse background including working at one of the nation’s most esteemed Black think tanks, one of Chicago’s top B2B Tech PR agencies, a top 3 global PR firm, and founding Kansas City’s largest Black-led direct action group during the 2020 uprisings. During Ryan’s professional career he’s consulted brands such as Facebook, Samsung, Amazon and Google.

He is a recipient of the Civil and Human Rights Award recognized by the Urban League of Kansas City, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and NAACP. He has also engaged in a number of public talks as a prison industrial complex Abolitionist thinker including on; NPR, PBS, a Kansas City Art Institute Lecture, a lecture at University of the Arts London, the Annual International Symposium (Digital Ethics for a Sustainable Society), as well as the T-Mobile Speaker Series.

KCUR Not Sure How to Feel About Ending Slavery

By Ryan S. ● Propaganda Observer ● April 24, 2026

Still workshopping its position on chattel slavery, the NPR affiliate invites you into the conversation.

Liberation Now Is Here: The Kansas City Defender Launches the Midwest’s First Radical Black Video News Show

By Ryan S. ● Videos ● April 16, 2026

The Kansas City Defender launches Liberation Now, our first-ever video series, debuting with an interview so explosive it names AIPAC, Hakeem Jeffries, the Kansas City mayor, and the entire war machine in a single conversation. Missouri democratic socialist Hartzell Gray holds nothing back. Neither do we.

Mizzou Protected a Student Who Joked About Killing Black People. Then It Defunded the Only Black Student Government in America.

By Ryan S. ● Education ● April 7, 2026

On Monday night, students packed every seat in the Schlundt Hall auditorium and lined the walls. More than a thousand watched on a livestream. They’ve toppled a Mizzou president before. They can do it again.

Rubio’s Global War on “Anti-American” Speech Has Its First Prisoners

By Ryan S. ● World ● April 1, 2026

A cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio directs every U.S. embassy worldwide to suppress “anti-American propaganda” using Pentagon psyops units and recruited local influencers. Weeks earlier, the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria had already directed the country’s secret police, the DSS, to arrest two citizens over tweets critical of israel & the U.S.

23 Organizations Launch Campaign to Stop KC’s World Cup Jail Before It Opens

By Ryan S. ● Kansas City ● March 31, 2026

Kansas City wants to welcome the world. It’s building a cage to do it. But a rapidly growing movement says the fight is far from over.

Local KC Leaders Gleefully Celebrate $317M Investment in Caging Black and Brown People, Note Facility ‘Designed for Future Expansion’

By Ryan S. ● Abolition ● March 30, 2026

Officials celebrate ‘justice with dignity’ vision for building specifically designed to strip people of both

The Company That Built Guantanamo Bay Is Now Building Kansas City’s World Cup Jail. A Coalition of 23 Organizations Are Fighting Back

By Ryan S. ● Abolition ● March 27, 2026

The contractor building Kansas City’s World Cup jail has been sued for human trafficking, found liable for poisoning over 100,000 people, and built the detention camp where the U.S. tortured prisoners for two decades. Decarcerate KC and 24 partner organizations are launching a campaign to fight it.

🚨 Missouri’s Apartheid Redistricting: Supreme Court Upholds Trump-Ordered Racist Voter Scheme to Kill Black Kansas City’s Vote.

By Ryan S. ● Politics ● March 25, 2026

They used Kansas City’s most infamous apartheid line to carve up Black representation. The Supreme Court court rubber-stamped it 4-3. Get the Full briefing.

🚨 Kill the Imperialist Lies: The Truth on the U.S. War Against Iran

By Ryan S. ● Global Briefing ● March 23, 2026

Your government launched an illegal war, bombed 66 schools, killed 165 schoolgirls, and is asking you to pay $200 billion for it. Here is everything Western media won’t tell you.

We Write to Wage War: The Radical Black Press As A Liberatory Technology

By Ryan S. ● Editorial ● March 16, 2026

For 199 years, the radical Black press has been the infrastructure beneath every major turning point in Black American life. In an era of AI and social technologies, what is the role of the revolutionary Black Press today?

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