â6 Streetsâ Explores How Art Can Raise Social Awareness
â6 Streetsâ Explores How Art Can Raise Social Awareness
Documentary Premieres Tonight on Kansas City PBS Tonight at 7 p.m., Kansas City PBS will premiere â6 Streets,â a new documentary about the people who created six Black Lives Matter murals on prominent streets in Kansas City. (Sam Snead | Nico Giles Productions) Share this story
Itâs about so much more than paint and pavement.
Tonight at 7 p.m., Kansas City PBS will premiere â6 Streets,â a new documentary about the people who created six Black Lives Matter murals on prominent streets in Kansas City.
The 30-minute documentary explores the intersection of public art and social awareness in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
Surging Interest in African American Genealogy
Surging Interest in African American Genealogy
Here Are Resources in Kansas City to Get Started Share this story Published February 18th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: The Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition holds monthly meetings and members go on yearly road trips of historical significance. Here is the group at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
in Topeka. (Contributed | Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition)
A family reunion in 2008 first sparked Wayne Reed’s interest in genealogy.
But it was a move in 2013 to Kansas City that gave Reed the resources that fired his resolve to learn more. Reed’s efforts since have produced a family tree with one branch reaching back to 1824.
Parts of Rural Missouri Will Get Gigabit Speeds With New Spectrum Initiative
Parts of Rural Missouri Will Get Gigabit Speeds With New Spectrum Initiative
Charter Expanding Coverage in 33 Missouri Counties Share this story Published February 17th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: A fiber optic cable used to provide broadband internet service. (Jens B ttner | AP Images)
A new initiative from one of Missouri’s biggest internet service providers promises to bring super fast broadband speeds to areas where they are desperately needed.
Charter Communications, which provides Spectrum service, recently announced a $5 billion initiative that will focus on broadband buildout in 24 states, reaching an estimated 1 million unserved customer locations. The buildout will include $1.2 billion in Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) money that was awarded to the company in late 2020.
Airline History Museum Hits Turbulence with Landlord
Airline History Museum Hits Turbulence with Landlord
Lease Dispute Lands in Court Share this story Published February 17th, 2021 at 11:30 AM Above image credit: A World War II era Navy SNJ trainer is part of the collection at the Airline History Museum.
The Airline History Museum, an attraction at the Wheeler Downtown Airport for 35 years, is fighting to prevent its collection of classic airplanes from being evicted by the private operator of the city-owned facility.
The non-profit’s dispute is with Signature Flight Support, which holds the master lease with the city on several hangars, associated aircraft parking aprons and buildings at Wheeler. The museum has filed a lawsuit in Clay County Circuit Court, and its online petition drive has garnered 6,000 supporters.
The Black church has never just been a church.
Since its beginnings on the American plantation, the Black church has served as a social hall, sanctuary and command center for social change.
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Rather than balk at the mention of politics from the pulpit, the Black church has a tendency to grab politics by the horns and steer it in the direction of progress for its people.
In April 1964, a Kansas City ordinance was proposed that would desegregate taverns, retail shops and other public spaces. Although the New York Times described it as “moderate” at the time, there was still a sizable backlash from white Kansas City residents.