Disproving the myth that "there's nothing to do in Kansas City" one week at a time. Forward to colleagues, friends, & visitors and see you around town!
ADDITIONS
Dominique Scott
FRIDAY
Join us for complimentary appetizers, drinks, and entertainment from DJ Ashton Martin and Soap, learn more about becoming a "Big" (mentor), interact with BBBS staff and BBBS Diversity Task Force members and network with the “Who’s Who of KC Multicultural leaders” RSVP Here: https://www.bbbskc.org/rooftopjam2017
Join Mustafa Abdulah, ACLU Lead Organizer, to learn your rights as citizens and protesters, This training covers civilian-police interactions on the street, in your car and in your home. The training focuses on Fourth Amendment rights in relation to searches and seizures, and provides practical advice for getting through a police encounter safely and calmly, with your rights fully intact.
Hunting Freedom is an exhibit at the Wornall/Majors House Museums which explores the end of slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border, focusing on the role of African Americans in this unique history. Exhibit Curator, Leah Astle Palmer, will discuss the challenges and rewards of researching African Americans in the nineteenth century and the sources that she used to give voice to the individuals who used the opportunities on the Kansas-Missouri border to hunt for freedom.
Grab your friends & your glory as you ride the streetcar down Main St, chipping off Kansas City’s landmarks & putting inside bars for this one of a kind Urban Golf Tournament! While you’ll find many of the amenities you’ve come to expect from a typical golf course, this will be anything but. Teeing off from rooftops, pitching from sidewalks and putting on street corners. No golf carts necessary as every hole is a short walk from the KC Ride Streetcar stops.
Garrett S. Griffin, the author of Racism in Kansas City: A Short History, will speak on the origins of the book and troubling current trends in white thought in KC and elsewhere.
His book is a study of Kansas City’s darkest moments – slavery, the border war, the Civil War, bombings of black homes, lynchings, the segregation of neighborhoods and schools, the civil rights struggle, the Black Panther movement, the 1968 race riot, assassinations in the 1970s, the infamous Missouri v. Jenkins U.S. Supreme Court case, and the racial inequities that still plague Kansas City today. Threaded throughout Racism in Kansas City are stories of those who fought ardently against racist policies – and won.
Attention foodies!! Sample KC's best restaurants & try some of the best mixed drinks & micro-brewed beers our city has to offer! Witness six of KC's most talented chefs as they battle for the Golden Fork!
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