Published over the weekend, the historic Kansas City Star provided readers with a look at the outlet’s internal review of its past coverage, which, according to editor Mike Fannin, contributed to the disenfranchisement of Black communities in the city.
“Through sins of both commission and omission it disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians,” wrote Fannin in a Sunday editorial. “The Kansas City Star prides itself on holding power to account. Today we hold up the mirror to ourselves to see the historic role we have played, through both action and inaction, in shaping and misshaping Kansas City’s landscape.”