Black entrepreneur and widely beloved Promoter Brian "Bizzy" Benton founded 816 Day in 2017. Now in 2026 KCTV5 calls the event "inaugural." Black Kansas City has a lot to say.
On the same day the Missouri Supreme Court hacked Black political representation into three pieces along the line of Kansas City's racial apartheid, the Star aimed its opinion page bludgeon at the only Black candidate running against the man the map was drawn to protect.
Still workshopping its position on chattel slavery, the NPR affiliate invites you into the conversation.
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.
A riveting interview with Dr. Anita Varma challenges the notion of journalistic objectivity and provides a new framework rooted in traditions like the Black, ethnic press and labor press.
The Assistant Principal at Olathe East High School “was mostly likely shot” by Erik Clark, the school cop, and not by the Black student Jaylon Elmore.
The history of Kansas City is one that white media has weaponized to produce the dehumanization and social death of Black people.
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