By The Admin on March 1, 2009
The Kansas African American Museum has reported possible missing items and cash to police.
Lisa Dodson, the museum’s former interim executive director, filed a police report in December. The report does not name a suspect.
The incident comes as the Wichita museum has struggled to raise money and gain support from the community.
The museum has revamped programming [...]
Posted in Kansas, State & Local News
By The Admin on January 13, 2009
JEANNINE KORANDA, Kansas City Star
- Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau took her oath of office this afternoon looking both excited and nervous as she became the first African-American woman to serve in the Kansas Senate.
“It’s kind of like a dream; it didn’t really sink in until now, until today, I mean wow,” she said. “To stand before [...]
Posted in Kansas, State & Local News
By The Admin on July 2, 2008
Associated Press
- Two Kansas men have pleaded guilty to federal charges over what prosecutors describe as an incident of racial taunting.
The incident occurred during a high school may 2007 graduation party in Waterville, 40 miles north of Manhattan. Prosecutors said 19-year-olds David B. Endsley, of Waterville, and Isaac Q. Clark, of Blue Rapids, tied up [...]
Posted in Kansas
By The Admin on June 29, 2008
CHRISTINA M. WOODS, Wichita Eagle
- Documenting the city’s African-American community from 1945 to 1958 will send Wichitan Galyn Vesey on a historical treasure hunt that could span the next three years.
Vesey, an instructor at Bethel College, said he’s passionate about the project because there’s little documentation of the city’s black residents during the segregation [...]
Posted in Kansas
By The Admin on June 22, 2008
- As recently reported, the Wichita Police department has suspended three officers for making a series of Racist and Reprehensible comments which were overheard and reported by a neighbor. These types of comments undermine the public trust and are indicative of an underlying hostility towards one of the very communities the Officers are sworn to [...]
Posted in Kansas, Race
