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bias thegrio.com
December 29, 2018
A white male allegedly kicked a one-year-old Black boy to the floor of a Wichita store then hurled racial slurs…
Richard Jones thegrio.com
December 22, 2018
Richard Anthony Jones will receive a $1.1 million settlement in a lawsuit that was resolved under Kansas state’s new mistaken-conviction…
New Hampshire TheGrio
November 19, 2018
After a white Kansas county commissioner, Louis Klemp, came under fire for an offensive statement to a Black city planner…
November 17, 2018
A white Kansas county commissioner has come under fire after telling a black city planner that he belongs to "the…
Handcuffs thegrio.com
October 5, 2018
Karle Robinson, a first-time homeowner, was working late into the night loading furniture into his brand-new house when he was…
police cars thegrio.com
July 2, 2018
The family of a black man fatally shot by two white officers in Kansas as he fled from them after…
teacher
May 24, 2018
A 10-year-old Kansas boy was brought to tears by a teacher who told him that if he is ever shot…
police
May 21, 2018
A Black man driving through Winfield, Kan., was stopped by police and had his car searched because they wanted to…
Hooters thegrio.com
April 18, 2018
Terrence Jeremy Skeen, a 42-year-old, 15-year veteran of the Kansas City Fire Department has regained his job as a first…
Linda Brown thegrio.com
March 26, 2018
Linda Brown, who as a Kansas girl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck…
Hooters thegrio.com
March 6, 2018
A Black child who attended a birthday party with family and friends at a Hooters restaurant in Overland Park, Kansas
October 6, 2016
Thomas Earl Brown Jr. was sentenced for the murder of a new bride still in her wedding gown and the…
August 24, 2016
A biracial family in Wichita, Kansas, was shocked when, on Monday, they were hit with an unsigned letter that said
July 18, 2016
In Wichita, Kansas, police met with Black Lives Matter activists in an event met to foster community togetherness, a barbecue
February 26, 2016
HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — A man who stormed into a Kansas factory where he worked and shot 15 people, killing…
December 26, 2015
Kansas City police are investigating two high school students after they posted a video of themselves sexually assaulting an unresponsive…
November 29, 2015
Kansas police fear that a father may have beaten his seven-year-old son to death and fed his remains to pigs.
May 27, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Less than two weeks on the job and Edwardsville city councilman Chuck Stites, is already being investigated…
April 17, 2015
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas law tells poor families that they can't use cash assistance from the state…
May 15, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Segregation is making a comeback in U.S. schools. Progress toward integrated classrooms has largely been rolled back…