KCUR 89.3 Dontavious Young, owner of Equal Minded Cafe, sets up a coffee station outside the restaurant and meeting place Tuesday. He was expecting a crowd of demonstrators to collect there before marching to Mill Creek Park to commemorate the death of George Floyd.
As racial justice advocates commemorate one year since Floyd s murder, protestors in Kansas City struggle to celebrate success while acknowledging the police killings that have happened since.
Kansas City racial justice activists are preparing to meet and protest near the Country Club Plaza this evening, in the park where the city’s biggest protests happened last summer. It’s part of their commemoration of the killing of George Floyd, one year ago today.