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KC FedEx Driver Caught on Ring Camera Saying N*gger at Black-Owned Business Because They Took Too Long Answering Door

By Ryan S. ● Racism Exposed ● July 15, 2026

A delivery to a Black women-founded brokerage in the West Plaza took a violent turn when the driver, frustrated that no one answered within seconds, was recorded using a racial slur at the front door. The company’s founder says she wants answers from FedEx.

ICE Gestapo Weaponize New Fascist Kansas Law That Makes It Illegal to Witness ICE

By Ryan S. ● Fascism Watch ● July 15, 2026

Kansas Republicans overrode their own governor to pass the Halo Act, a moving 25-foot arrest zone around every agent in the state. In Olathe, ICE is already using it to trap the people who film them, with local police finishing the arrests.

The Future of Politics Is Streaming Live From Kansas City

By Ryan S. ● Politics ● July 15, 2026

Somewhere between a gerrymander and a Twitch stream, American politics broke open in Kansas City. Young people are staging leftist insurgencies all across the country while millions watch live, and nobody who drew the maps saw them coming.

SLUMLORD BEATDOWN: North Lawn Tenants Force City to Suspend Levovitz’s Rental License

By Ryan S. ● Housing ● July 10, 2026

Three days after City officials stormed their buildings and ordered families out within 24 hours, the Health Department suspended the Chicago slumlord’s rental license. The union that forced the reckoning says he cannot rent another unit until he fixes what he broke.

What to the World is the 4th of July?

By Ryan S. ● World ● July 3, 2026

On the eve of the semiquincentennial, we are republishing the speech I gave on July 4, 2020, at the Anti-Independence Day Rally in Westport, steps from a building that held Black people enslaved in its basement. Then we are going to talk about the cookout.

🚨 While Many Celebrate the World Cup, ICE Hunts Kansas City Community Members: What’s Happening, and How to Fight Back

By Ryan S. ● Fascism Watch ● July 1, 2026

In nine days, ICE’s occupying force disappeared neighbors from gas stations, doorways, and a fruit stand while Kansas City sold the world a party. This is the full record of the manhunt, and what the community built to fight back.”

Kansas City Prepares to Launch America’s First Public Bus Mass Biometric Surveillance Program

By Ryan S. ● Technology & AI ● June 29, 2026

Kansas City wants to be the first city in the country to scan the face of every person who boards a public bus. The riders it would test the technology on are its poorest and its Blackest, and the company behind the cameras is a penny stock fronted by a man whose last company collapsed in fraud.

“Better Than Christmas”: Inside Kansas City’s Abolitionist Juneteenth Cookout

By Ryan S. ● Black Life & Joy ● June 22, 2026

A Black child ran ahead of his mother into Harris Park and called it the best day of his life. He did not yet know whose names would be spoken there, or what his people had survived to give him a day like this one. He will understand it someday. We spent the whole afternoon teaching him without saying a word.

WE HAVE A DEAL: North Lawn Tenants Win It All

By Ryan S. ● Housing ● June 12, 2026

Three years of organizing brought a Chicago landlord to a table in the Historic Northeast. Two hours and three languages later, the tenants of North Lawn walked out with frozen rents, erased debt, repairs on deadline, and a signed path to owning their homes.

A Black Church Saved the Only Black Student Government in America. Mizzou Tried to Destroy It.

By Ryan S. ● Black Liberation Theology ● June 10, 2026

As a generation walks away from a Black church it found too silent, Alfred Street Baptist Church answered Mizzou’s attack on the Legion of Black Collegians, and lit the path forward for every congregation watching.

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