Avenue of Life in Kansas City, Kansas, works with school liaisons to identify students in need of a variety of supports. Within 24 hours after being notified, the nonprofit meets with families to provide hotel rooms, food, clothing and other immediate needs while a team works to find long term housing for the family.
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The first ever Black Comedy Festival KC will take place from April 25-28, mainly in Kansas City’s historic 18th & Vine district. Festival organizers say it’s the first festival to highlight black comics in the region, as well as the first to feature several different forms of comedy.
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Port KC and the KC Current on Monday announced a district to surround CPKC stadium, which opened last month. The development will break ground at the end of this year and wrap up before the World Cup in 2026.
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A pair of exhibits at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence are inspired by the life and death of Emmett Till, which helped launch the civil rights movement. The work of area textile artists helps connect the 1955 killing to contemporary violence against Black people.
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Missouri banned gender-affirming health care for minors, and Kansas could follow suit this spring. So families are forced to move to other states or travel hundreds of miles, sometimes with the help of a growing network of groups determined to make the care available.
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More than 15 years after the original documentary examined the country’s food industry, “Food, Inc. 2” examines the impact corporations have on our food — including the treatment of workers. Local fast food worker and organizer Fran Marion is featured in the documentary and hopes it brings change.
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The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum accepted on Thursday the remnants of the vandalized statue. The cleats will be added to an existing exhibit about the first Black American to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier.
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced the first federal limits on PFAS in drinking water. Only two Midwestern states currently have limits on levels acceptable in drinking water.
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Families have been blocked from visiting inmates since March 1. A union president for prison staff believes an investigation justifying the tightened rules is dragging on as a way to circumvent the union’s contract.
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Under current Missouri law, 16 and 17-year-olds are allowed to get married, to anyone under the age of 21, with parental consent. The Senate approved legislation that would prohibit issuing a marriage license to anyone younger than 18 under any circumstances.
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Missouri is home to a host of reliable freshwater systems, but lawmakers worry that dryer states will look to it for supplies. A bill advancing through the Missouri House prohibits exporting water to other states without a permit.
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One of the best restaurants in Kansas opens four days a week on the wind-swept plains, an hour beyond the nearest stoplight. In a county that’s lost more than half of its population, Fly Boy Brewery & Eats offers a renewed sense of hope — and a cheeseburger worth driving for.