By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA - The white woman who testified that a Black teenager named Emmett Till had made inappropriate approaches toward her, which led to his lynching and murder in Mississippi in 1955, has died.
A 1975 protest at a McDonald’s restaurant in Kansas City emerged from years of escalating tension between Black community members and their city, and between McDonald’s and the neighborhoods it inhabited. But this particular location was also one of the first Black-owned fast-food franchises in the country, an accomplishment born from its own struggle for inclusion.
The late Chiefs legend Otis Taylor almost became a Dallas Cowboy instead of a Kansas City Chief. Ahead of the draft, Chiefs Historian Bob Moore explains the story to KSHB 41 News.