Alvin Brooks remembers growing up as the only Black kid in an all white, but poor white, Leeds-Dunbar neighborhood during the 1940s in Kansas City, Missouri. Although he made friends, he was reminded that in other parts of the city he was not welcome. Sometimes the streetcar’s white motorman charged him a nickel to board […]
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Prosecutor Cites ‘Racial Component’ in Shooting of Black Kansas City Teen
Kansas City, Missouri, activists and the family of a Black teen who was shot in the head by a white homeowner are frustrated by the investigation and question why it took so long for the shooter to be charged. The Clay County prosecutor’s office announced charges Monday against Andrew Lester and said there was a […]
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Kansas City Police Dismissed a Black News Site’s Reports of Missing Women. Then One Showed Up.
For more than a month, a 22-year-old Black woman was allegedly held hostage inside a makeshift room in the basement of an Excelsior Springs, Missouri, home. Bound with handcuffs, gagged by duct tape and a metal collar with a padlock around her neck, she was repeatedly raped and whipped by her kidnapper, according to court […]