The influence of institutional racism in the Kansas child welfare system can be depicted with statistics showing Black children were disproportionately investigated and removed from the home as well as reports demonstrating more rapid reunification of white children with their families.
We gave Lawrence City Commission candidates a chance to update their answers to our earlier questionnaire as they proceed to the general election on Nov. 2.
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University of Kansas theatre students are getting ready to rock. Their production this weekend, “Airness,” is about an air guitar competition and it “promises rivalry, glorious ridiculousness, and genuine joy.”
An organization working to reform the Kansas juvenile justice system called for an end to incarceration of youth after a 17-year-old boy died at the Sedgwick County intake facility.
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The Sundance Film Festival will hold screenings at Lawrence’s Liberty Hall in January as one of seven satellite sites nationwide, the festival announced Monday.
Courtesy of Ahmad "Baset" Azizi
Ahmad “Baset” Azizi is a KU political science student, not a congressman. But that’s what his older sister claimed as she showed a picture of Azizi to an officer at the crowded Kabul airport on Aug. 24. Her family was desperately trying to escape Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban.
KU Black Alumni Network
The Black Alumni Network of the University of Kansas has selected the first seven winners of its new biennial Emerging Leaders Award, plus nine winners of the group’s longstanding Leaders and Innovators award.
Marlo Angell / Lawrence Arts Center
Children’s imaginations will come to this weekend during Over, Under, All Around, the Lawrence Arts Center’s newest interactive performance experience from the Theatre and Dance for the Very Young program. Six performances are scheduled at the Ballard Center playground in Lawrence.
Amanda Gorman’s long-awaited picture book debuts with a strong No. 1 on this round of the Raven’s bestseller list. Any time a poet tops a bestseller list is a cause for celebration.
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The Lawrence school board heard tonight about district staff’s efforts to recruit BIPOC staff, fill positions and more; plus updates on enrollment and a message about “devious licks” from the superintendent.
