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Through Oct. 14, more than a dozen Black-owned restaurants will band together to help support Willa’s Books and Vinyl, the city’s longest standing Black-owned bookstore. Not only is it vital ...
The Brookside Shopping District is located in the Brookside neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri at 63rd Street & Brookside Boulevard. J.C. Nichols developed the district in 1920 as Kansas City's first suburban shopping center, predating the nearby Country Club Plaza. [1]
Segregation, Jim Crow laws, and redlining kept Black Kansas Citians east of Troost Avenue for much of the mid-20th century. Prospect became one of the main commercial thoroughfares of the East Side during the 1950s and 1960s, providing the entertainment that the African-American community was barred from in locations such as Westport, the River Quay, and the Country Club Plaza. [3]
It was built in 1960, on 63rd Street and Troost Avenue (it also has frontage on East Meyer Boulevard) and it was originally an open-air shopping center. The architect of the Landing Mall was Edward Tanner , who was also the architect of the old Kansas City Missouri School District Building on 12th and McGee Street in Downtown.
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Browne’s Irish Marketplace. Location: 3300 Pennsylvania Ave.. Year founded: 1887. Best known for: Reubens with cold pints of Guinness. The Irish imports shop and deli got its start in 1887. Ed ...
Peaking at 75% black in the mid-1970s after five previous decades of the Great Migration increased the black population five-fold, DC is 46–49% black in 2018. DC remains the largest African-American percentage population of any state or territory in the mainland US.
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