The critical importance of direct action in challenging systemic issues, like racism in schools, and the tactics that those in power use to silence dissent. Why we must choose protest over pacification.
April memorializes the 55th Anniversary of what is (commonly referred to as) the Kansas City Race Riots that followed the death of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968. The University of Missouri Kansas City's LaBudde Special Collections has reworked its 1968 Race Riot Collection information to decolonize its language, but is now looking to possibly rename its collection with the community's help.
Blue Valley High School students write "N*gger," draw swastikas and homophobic slurs in vicious MLK Day vandalism hate crime.
University of Missouri is under major fire after announcing it will not punish the white student who wished death on "N*ggers" and leads hate groups on campus.
Weeks after a mass Town Hall to address racism at the Kansas City school, a coalition of major civil rights organizations is issuing demands to University Academy.
Students at University of Missouri are demanding the expulsion of white student Meg Miller, after she posted a horrifically violent white supremacist threat, thinly veiled as a joke, which stated “If They Would Have Killed 4 More N*ggers We Would Have Had the Whole Week Off.”
A Kansas basketball game turned violently racist when white students threatened to hang Black players and attempted to raid & attack them in the locker room.
[VIDEO] A white teacher at University Academy High School in Kansas City repeatedly uses the N word even after Black students tell him it makes them uncomfortable.
We need concrete solutions for supporting black students, including; policy advocacy, accountability for racism, and increasing mental health access.
White men are outraged that a course dedicated to studying “Angry White Men” is being taught at the University of Kansas this semester.
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