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2. African American Artists Collective KC - Wikipedia

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   The product of a 2014 meeting at Gates Barbecue with Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II and his assistant Jim Vaughan, Kansas City artists Glenn North, Diallo Javonne French, Gerald Dunn, Jason Piggie, NedRa Bonds and Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin started hosting regular meetings and gaining press coverage for their work in the Kansas City community. [1]

3. The Call (Kansas City) - Wikipedia

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   During the 1950s, his editorials in The Call’s protested urban development in inner Kansas City that seemed designed to keep blacks segregated from whites, who began to move into new suburban developments in the 1950s and 60s following construction of highways for commuters. The paper condemned the building of urban projects that displace ...

4. Black Archives of Mid-America - Wikipedia

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   The Black Archives of Mid-America holds an oral history collection collected in the mid-1970s comprising 97 audiocassettes, holding interviews of 56 people, mostly from Kansas City's African American community. [3] [6]

5. AALBC.com - Wikipedia

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   AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club, is a website dedicated to books and film by and about African Americans and people of African descent, with content also aimed at African-American bookstores. [1] [2] AALBC.com publishes book and film reviews, author profiles, resources for writers and related articles. Launched in 1998 ...

6. Gwendolyn Grant (activist) - Wikipedia

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   Gwendolyn Grant is an American activist. She is President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City. [1] She became their first female CEO in 1995. [2]Grant has received numerous honors including the National Urban League's Whitney M. Young Leadership Award for Advancing Racial Equity and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Community Service Award.

7. African Americans in Missouri - Wikipedia

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   Early in Missouri's history, African Americans were enslaved in the state; [1] some of its black slaves purchased their own freedom. [2] On January 11, 1865, slavery was abolished in the state. [3] The Fifteenth Amendment in the year 1870 had given African American black men the rights to vote. [4] As of 2020, 699,840 blacks live in Missouri. [5]

8. Media in Kansas City, Missouri - Wikipedia

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   The Kansas City Globe, local African-American news, weekly [10] Kansas City Hispanic News, local Hispanic news, weekly [11] Metro Voice Newspaper, local Christian digital news [12] National Catholic Reporter, Roman Catholic news, bi-weekly [13] Northeast News, Northeast Kansas City neighborhood news, weekly [14] [15] The Pitch, alternative ...

9. Prospect Avenue (Kansas City, Missouri) - Wikipedia

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   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]