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Tony s Kansas City: TKC Must See: Inside The Kansas City Black Archives Of Mid-America

Tony s Kansas City: TKC Must See: Inside The Kansas City Black Archives Of Mid-America
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KC firefighter s artwork on now display at Black Archives of Mid-America

KC firefighter s artwork on now display at Black Archives of Mid-America Sean Tiller s works will be on display at the Black Archives at least through the end of the month Share Updated: 5:07 PM CST Feb 23, 2021 KC firefighter s artwork on now display at Black Archives of Mid-America Sean Tiller s works will be on display at the Black Archives at least through the end of the month Share Updated: 5:07 PM CST Feb 23, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript INSPIRING OTHERS. THIS IS ONE OF MY MORE RECENT PIECES MADE LAST YEAR. KELLY: HE CALLS IT SPACE ART. 27-YEAR-OLD SEAN TILLER SAYS PAINTING BRINGS HIM JOY. THE COLORS, THE TEXTURE, AND THE FANTASY OF THESE IMAGINARY PLANETS. AND IT’S NOW BEING FEATURED AT THE BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID AMERICA COFFEE SHOP IN THE 18TH AND VINE DISTRICT. TO HAVE THIS LEVEL OF ATTENTION BEING BROUGHT TO MY ARTWORK IS STILL HITTING ME. IT FEELS GREAT, THOUGH. I’M VERY APPRECIATIVE OF IT. KELLY: TILLER STARTED GETT

A Record of Kansas City Black History: Chant Their Names, Almost As If Holy

“I sing their names . . .,” writes Kansas City poet Glenn North. His words are one of several contemporary voices joined in a new, 44-page book that collects the more than 70 biographies that the Kansas City Black History Project team has researched and shared with the Kansas City community since 2010. “I sing of… Langston and Parker, Ms. Bluford and Mary Lou, Old Buck, Leon Jordan, Horace and Bruce . . .” Every year, the project told the stories behind seven or eight of the names hidden by time. It gathered them in booklets and posters that were given to schools, libraries and other public spaces used by teachers, librarians, mentors and parents to raise up a neglected history.

History & Hope: A conversation with KC legend Alvin Brooks

Updated: 12:08 PM EST Feb 20, 2021 By Jackson Kurtz This month, Hearst Television is celebrating Black history by having courageous conversations. The fight for civil rights and justice goes back generations and has looked different each decade. We’re speaking with community leaders, elders – those who have lived through victories and troubled times, to talk about their experiences, and compare them with what we still struggle with today.Alvin Brooks has been a leader in Kansas City, Missouri, since becoming one of the city s first Black police officers in the 1950s. After his time in the police department, Brooks would become one of the city’s few Black elected officials and later a civil rights activist for decades.The 88-year-old sat down with Jackson Kurtz, a reporter at sister station KMBC, at the Black Archives of Mid-America to discuss the history of the racism he s faced and the hope he has for where we are as a nation today.Brooks began the conversati

Surging Interest in African American Genealogy

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.

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