Live Venues Shuttered by Pandemic Could Start Getting Grants
Live Venues Shuttered by Pandemic Could Start Getting Grants
$16 Billion in the balance Share this story Published 1 hour ago Above image credit: Wick and The Tricks at Lemonad(e) Park (Courtesy | Todd Zimmer)
On a Friday night in Kansas City’s West Bottoms, comfortably distanced members of the crowd at Lemonad(e) Park tapped their toes and took in an evening of in-person live music.
Then, the skies opened up.
The night’s headliner, a local group called True Lions, didn’t even hit the stage. But if you asked a member of the medium-sized crowd shuffling to the exit in the downpour, they likely would have been happy to have seen any live music at all.
How to Observe Memorial Day During the Pandemic
How to Observe Memorial Day During the Pandemic
6 ways to honor the fallen this year Share this story Published 1 hour ago Above image credit: An aerial view of the National World War I Museum and Memorial, which has a full slate of Memorial Day weekend events scheduled this year. (File photo)
On Memorial Day in 2019, visitors browsed the solemn exhibits of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Honolulu surrounded by 2,390 six-by-eight-inch U.S. flags, each tagged with the name and duty assignment of a person who died in the attack that prompted the United States’ entry into World War II.
Tracing Kansas Cityâs Ties to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Centennial Next Week Share this story Published 2 hours ago Above image credit: The ruins of Black Wall Street after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. (Courtesy | Library of Congress)
Last October an Oklahoma forensic team found 12 unmarked coffins containing human remains in a Tulsa cemetery.
What investigators called a âmass graveâ represented evidence of what witnesses had described almost a century ago â that victims of what often is considered the worst incident of racial violence in American history had been buried together without any stone or memorial marking the spot.
The discovery also meant 21
Kansas Cityâs Surprising Connection to Japanese Internment Camps
Kansas Cityâs Surprising Connection to Japanese Internment Camps
Understanding History During âA Very Turbulent Moment Right Nowâ
In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, anti-Japanese hysteria gripped the United States.
Early in World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 commanding that âall persons of Japanese ancestryâ be moved into internment camps.
The U.S. the government called them âassembly centers.â But some historians now believe that âconcentration campsâ might have been more accurate.
Although there werenât any camps in the Midwest, a small group of college-aged Japanese American students from internment camps landed at Park College in 1942.