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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.

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Ryan's Latest Articles

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

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

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

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?

Who the Terrorists Are: On the American-Israeli War in Iran

They killed 165 schoolgirls on a Saturday morning, bragged about obtaining "complete control of Iranian skies," and plunged the planet into its most dangerous military crisis since 1945. A radical examination of American empire's suicidal hubris, the intelligence operations that manufactured the pretext, and the media apparatus selling civilizational destruction as foreign policy.

“Suspend Me If You Want”: Lincoln Prep Middle School Threatens Kids With Suspension…They Still Organize Anti-ice Protest Anyways

Threatened with suspension, these middle schoolers refused to back down and joined the growing MO/KS student movement to denounce ICE and the proposed ICE concentration camps planned to be built in Kansas City

BREAKING: Platform Ventures Backs Down From ICE Detention Center Sale After Weeks of Mass Organizing and Protest

The people won. For now.

KCPD Holds Taxpayers Hostage While Shielding a Killer in Blue

The department has received $1.2 billion since 2022. Now it claims it can't afford basic services while an officer who has killed three people remains on patrol. A Kansas City Defender investigation.

Kansas City at Center of ICE Nationwide Concentration Camp Network

ICE is eyeing to make Kansas City one of seven "mega centers" in its unprecedented concentration camp network. A local real estate company, Platform Ventures, may "sell out" Kansas City by selling a taxpayer-subsidized warehouse to make it happen. And federal agents are already terrorizing KC residents & going door-to-door.

Kansas City Passes 5-Year Ban on Mass Detention Facilities

The move blocks permits for non-municipal detention centers as the Trump regime eyes KC for a 10,000-person ICE concentration camp

Damning Transcript Exposes Truth Behind Holy Brunch Closure

What began as a federal RICO lawsuit has become one of Kansas City's most explosive legal sagas. Now, Holy Brunch's owner is blaming Black media for his closure and screenshotting a Black woman reporter in an expletive-laden Facebook diatribe. But court transcripts expose what he knew all along.

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