Pride Month History: Kansas City had foundational role in LGBT movement nationwide
KC history made before Stonewall
Kansas City activists played a foundational role in LGBT civil rights movements nationwide.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Barney Allis Plaza in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, is home to a bronze marker that many passers by likely have never taken the time to notice.
That bronze marker signifies the city s LGBT activism that not only changed the future of Kansas City, but the rest of the nation.
What happened at the State hotel that once stood at the corner of W. 12th Street and Wyandotte Street didn t go down in history like the Stonewall riots, but historians say it laid the foundation.
Equity and Righting Past Wrongs to Start the 2021 National Planning Conference
The American Planning Association s 2021 National Planning Conference started streaming this morning, with an obvious focus on equity and the historical role of the planning profession in perpetuating systemic racism. May 5, 2021, 12pm PDT | James Brasuell |
There s an obvious effort to make up for lost time in the proceedings of the 2021 National Planning Conference (NPC).
Yes, the 2020 NPC was canceled in March 2020 as the COVID-19 started to take a toll in the United States, prompting closures of businesses and events all over the country. But even the original scheduled date of April 2020 would have preceded a moment of historic reckoning for the planning profession, as the nation grappled with the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and so many more.
Planning for the 2021 National Planning Conference
After last year s National Planning Conference was canceled in the early days and weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual event returns online, with tons of planning content and even several avenues for networking and socializing. Share
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The American s Planning Association s 2020 National Planning Conference, scheduled for the end of April in Houston, was canceled on March 17 early on in the stay-at-home orders that would redefine daily life during the pandemic.
The 2021 National Planning Conference, originally scheduled for Boston, will take place this week, May 5-7, in the online format we ve become so accustomed to, but with some technological bells and whistles to duplicate some of the usual excitement and activity of the National Planning Conference. There is still plenty of Boston-specific content to peruse under the Beats of Boston activity type on the conference program, so the opportunity to exp
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