More residents of northeast Kansas City, Kansas, are seeing the connection between the factories in their neighborhoods and their own health problems. As one activist puts it, "People see their lives are getting harder and that alone is evidence that they want to do something about it."
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January 29, 2021
The City will be hosting and co-hosting numerous events throughout February 2021 to commemorate Black History Month. The month will feature book clubs, presentations, lessons, and more, aimed at celebrating the impact Black Americans have had on our country, and educating people on the barriers Black Americans have faced, and still face today.
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Subscribe Their Eyes Were Watching God book club & discussion The City s Black History Month book club centers on the iconic novel by Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God.
A Zoom discussion of the book will be held at
7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Facilitated by Abena Sankofa Imhotep, Director of Sankofa Literary and Empowerment Group Des Moines, the book discussion is hosted by the Office of Equity and Human Rights, and the Iowa City Public Library.
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EcoRadio KC is a magazine show, including live segments, prerecorded stories, and interviews. The weekly explores our interdependence with the rest of the world, showing the connections between the ways we choose to live and the health of the whole community of life.
On our December 21
st show, host Richard Mabion, our own community activist, speaks with his friend Norman Anderson. Norm has over 35 years of environmental public health experience. He lives in Maine. He and Richard met at an NAACP conference in Pittsburgh. They are both involved in the Pittsburgh Platform, an endeavor intended to promote environmental health improvements through the lens of social and racial equity. While based in Pittsburgh, the Platform is intended to serve as a catalyst for such positive societal changes in other cities in the United States as well as internationally.