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Kansas City leaders call emergency meeting to address teacher’s alleged racial slur
Community leaders call what they refer to as an emergency town hall meeting to discuss racism at a Kansas City charter school.
The Urban League of Kansas City, Urban Summit, SCLC-KC, Councilwoman Melissa Robinson, and others organized the meeting...The community plans to discuss a high school teacher’s actions at University Academy. The teacher is accused of using the N-word in front of students multiple times last month. Someone recorded video of the teacher using the term.
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Reparative justice dominates conversation at 2021 Urban Summit Kansas City
The fight for Reparative Justice in Kansas City heated up at the fourteenth annual Urban Summit.
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Civil rights organizations condemn KC mayor, issue vote of no confidence in city manager
A coalition of major civil rights organizations in Kansas City, including the NAACP-Missouri, National Black United Front-KC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference-KC, Urban League of Greater Kansas City, and Urban Summit issued a vote of no confidence in Kansas City’s city manager Thursday.
The coalition accused Brian Platt of racist, sexist, and discriminatory policies toward Black women and Black city workers.
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As KC’s East Side grapples with crime, residents call for action. We must help them | Opinion
In 1997, the Rev. John Modest Miles of Morningstar Missionary Baptist Church appeared in a documentary, “27th & Prospect: One Year in the Fight Against Drugs,” about the lawlessness that then plagued this east Kansas City neighborhood. Filmed during a sermon, he preached, “Our streets are filled with drugs and violence, and Lord we don’t know where the solution is.” Twenty-seven years later, early last Friday morning, Pastor Miles opened his church’s hall to a breakfast meeting to discuss crime in the same neighborhood....
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Task force meets with aim to increase safety along Prospect Avenue corridor
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Community members and city leaders are collaborating on ideas and suggestions to improve safety and decrease crime along the Prospect Avenue corridor.
The groups met Friday morning inside the Morning Star Baptist Church Community Center at 27th Street and Prospect Ave. It was a packed room as everyone started the morning breaking bread before getting to the business at hand.......
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KCMO police, community advocates work for solutions to crime problem in Prospect Avenue corridor
If you drive past the shuttered Sun Fresh Market on East 31st Street and Prospect Avenue, you'll notice a white, security barricade surrounding the closed store.
The barrier is there to make sure there aren't any burglaries while the store is vacant.
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Urban League, local activists to file court brief in support of Westport discrimination lawsuit
A federal civil rights lawsuit in Westport is gaining national attention.
The Urban Council — a coalition of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, NAACP–Missouri State Conference, Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City and the Urban Summit — announced its intent to file an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit.
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Kansas City officials considering changes to add enforcement to 31st and Prospect area
KSHB 41 reporter Megan Abundis covers Kansas City, Missouri, including neighborhoods in the southern part of the city.
A five-block stretch in Kansas City, Missouri, has become a crime hotspot and now, neighbors are changing their tactics.
Just last week, KCMO Mayor Quinton Lucas and KCPD Chief Stacey Graves walked through the Linwood shopping center......
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