Voting Safety During Covid 19 – Vote by Mail
SB631 signed into law on June 4, 2020 by Gov. Parson’s is now in effect for the August 4 Primary and November 3 General elections. The law expands absentee vote…
NAACP KC’s statement on the killing of George Floyd
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” James Baldwin The Kansas City Missouri Branch of the NAACP has…
Why We Must Vote
Once again we have been called upon to exercise our right to vote. At the present moment the pillars of our democracy economic justice, voting rights and educational equality are…
A Response to Reopening Our City and State
For the safety of our communities, we must ignore orders from our governor to return to jobs that can possibly become death traps. Many public health experts across the nation…
Why We Must Be Counted
The decennial Census is a crucial facet of our Republic because its result serves as the basis for redistricting the enforcement of voting rights laws and allocating congressional seats to…
#WeAreDoneDying
Recent incidents are reminiscent of an atrocious era of hate and domestic terrorism where police officers and white protesters routinely brutalized African-Americans. The senseless death displays the continuance of systematic…