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Courtesy Black Archives of Mid-AmericaHAYS, Kansas — On the night of Jan. 6, 1869, Luke Barnes, Lee Watkins and James Ponder sat in jail accused of shooting a white railroad worker in this… -
During the Civil Rights movement, the late scholar Ronald Walters helped lead a sit-in that desegregated the Dockum Drug Store. Now his hometown of Wichita, Kan., is naming a library after him.
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Fred Seaman founded Seaman High School 100 years ago. He launched the first-ever “Klan ticket” in Topeka elections, newspapers reported at the time. -
Statues of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin have been removed from the Washburn University campus in Topeka after protests against racial injustice… -
A rally in Wichita over the weekend focused on remembering Black women in the fight for racial justice. Now, organizers say they want to keep the momentum… -
MANHATTAN — Kansas State football players say they will boycott all team activities until administrators create a policy that would allow a student to be… -
Junetta Everett says her hero is Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, helped spark the civil… -
Pastor Marvin Winans is a member of the musically gifted Winans family. He founded Perfecting Church in Detroit, Michigan, in 1989 along with a school,… -
African-American children are much more likely to land in the Kansas foster care system than white children. A report from Strengthen Families Rebuild... -
Kansas is on its way to becoming a majority-minority state, with white residents expected to make up less than half of the population by 2066.A new report… -
As a schoolgirl, she was at the center of the landmark Supreme Court case that rejected racial segregation in American public schools. She died Sunday in Topeka, Kan. She was 76. -
A lesser-known radio station in Wichita has become an oasis on the dial for those who don't speak English.La Raza 99.7 FM is considered a vital…
