B-REAL Academy, the only abolitionist freedom school of its kind in the region, just graduated its third cohort, the largest and youngest yet. In one year since its launch it has held students from ten to eighty-one in the same room, in a city that is emerging as a new national organizing hub.
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.
The Defender's Abolitionist Freedom School is accepting applications for Cohort 3. The 14-week organizer, activist & Black study training program for Black people across Missouri and Kansas launches this spring. Applications close February 21st.
University of Missouri President Mun Choi has framed homelessness as a public safety issue following a local student’s killing. But crime data shows no link between homelessness and violent crime. Advocates say that rhetoric has fueled harassment of Columbia’s unhoused community.
A lynching? A self-imposed exile? A bribe? What really happened to Lloyd Gaines, the law school applicant who put Missouri’s racist education system on trial and eventually went missing?
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Concerned Student 1950 protests that rocked the campus and country, but the patterns from back then seem to be on repeat for Black students in present day.
Federal budget cuts and rising education costs are colliding across Missouri’s public universities. And for Black students, especially those who are low-income, first-generation, or disabled, the consequences are disproportionately devastating.
Legendary Black author Howard W. French joins National Black United Front KC's Baba Mickey Dean for The Second Emancipation talk on Nkrumah and Pan-African power. Aug 21, Plaza Branch.
Local bookstore BLK + BRWN hosted their annual Juneteenth Block Party to commemorate the bookstore turning four years old.
Imagine dropping your child off for school, only to find out a former cop was paid by the district to watch them — from your front lawn, from the corner store, from the bus stop. Parents call KCPS' newest job listing a dangerous escalation of school-based policing, especially in an era of ICE raids and state violence against immigrant families.
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