The Minnie Hackney Community Service Center will be the beneficiary of the inaugural “Community First” fundraiser by Access to Justice, a local law firm, for its role in supporting the
A new exhibit at the Joplin History and Mineral Museum highlights the story of Joplin’s Black community, especially at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
JOPLIN, Mo. — The Joplin Globe may be the only newspaper in Joplin these days — but it wasn’t always the case. When a new mural appeared in downtown Joplin, it helped bring awareness to Joplin Uplift — the name of a newspaper published in Joplin between 1926 to about 1932 for the Black community. […]
JOPLIN, Mo. — This building — near 1st and Main St. in Joplin — is now known as the Minnie Hackney Community Service Center. But that’s not what it was called when it first opened just after the end of World War II. “They chartered it and made it and made it into the Negro […]