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fox4kc.com
April 3, 2018
Now, local civil rights activists are planning to launch a petition to save their efforts to rename the Paseo after King -- if the city council doesn't get involved. "We felt this was an insult," said the Rev. Sam Mann said, the vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City.
Wichita Eagle
April 3, 2018
Five decades later, Johnson is the dean of civil rights activists in Dallas, dedicated to passing on the hard-won lessons of the civil rights movement to a ... Johnson eventually left school to work full time for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the civil rights organization founded by King.
Kansas City Star
April 2, 2018
He followed up his career in King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference with nearly four decades as a Georgia legislator, pushing legislation that ... Brittany Packnett, 33, who became an activist after Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, said her activism isÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
April 1, 2018
Though she did not later become one of the many famous black activists of the 1950s and 1960s, Linda Brown, who passed away last week at age 75, .... Southern Christian Leadership Conference recruited school kids—teenagers, pre-teens, and even elementary school students—to take to the streets.
NBC Bay Area
March 27, 2018
The Kansas-based group picketed outside Rancho Romero Elementary school for its gender equality less plan and for allowing a transgender ... the LGBT students and to "remind folks that the small hate group does not speak for the broader Christian community or speak for the faith community as a whole.
Kansas City Star
March 26, 2018
The conservative blog Activist Mommy posted an article analyzing the “blasphemous” use of religious imagery in the brand's logo, according to the Toronto Star. "The name, 'Sweet Jesus' refers to a blasphemous expression one might use when thoroughly enjoying one of the company's ice cream conesÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 24, 2018
Her 17-year-old daughter, Grace, was just about to go to a Christian rock concert in Kansas City. Conley felt compelled to warn her. "If she hears ... Proud of the young activists, James was strident in likening their passion to the activism of another era. "I used to stand here, in Theis Park, on a stage like this,Ãâà...
Sports Illustrated
March 21, 2018
But, I have to confess, the Kansas City Royals have astounded even this veteran observer. A week or so ago, the ... The local Christian activists went up the wall, and so did the fundamentalists on Muser's team, one of whom was Mike Sweeney, who was the franchise cornerstone. Muser was gone by theÃâà...
Kansas City Star (blog)
March 17, 2018
The music of Dan Schutte, a composer of Catholic hymns, is a staple at Visitation Parish in the heart of Kansas City. The man himself is less welcome. The renowned composer has been disinvited from a scheduled April 28 concert. That alone is shocking, as the lyrical, soothing tones of his work are heardÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 16, 2018
LGBTQ advocates, however, were just as quick to point to Pompeo's extensive record — mostly as a congressman from Kansas, before becoming CIA director last ... In contrast, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian think tank, praised Trump's choice of Pompeo,Ãâà...
kansaspublicradio.org
March 16, 2018
The holiday as we know it in America was promoted by activists to celebrate Irish culture, in order to fight prejudice against Irish immigrants. Today ... referring to the book Jews use as a guide at Passover Seder, or ritual meal, "but we know the Passover story because we grew up in a Christian household.".
kansaspublicradio.org
March 15, 2018
Before the march began, activists took to the stage and spoke of their struggles and triumphs. ... An activist from the Christian community excoriated the government for ignoring the scourge of forced conversions, where Muslim men kidnap minority women, force them to convert to Islam and marry themÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 1, 2018
While some bluish states are considering tightening gun-control laws, red states like Kansas, Indiana, and South Dakota have actually responded to .... As a movement dominated by white Christian men, contemporary conservatives see themselves on the losing side of the great power shifts of our age.
SPIN
March 1, 2018
The op-ed comes directly after the rapper cancelled a performance at Kansas City's The Riot Room due to the fact that the Norwegian black metal band ... Kweli's new essay opens by discussing far-right activist Jeremy Christian, who killed three men on a bus in Portland when they tried to defend a youngÃâà...
Kansas City Star
February 26, 2018
81 People's Liberation Army Hospital in eastern Jiangsu province for a minor stomachache, a relative of Li's told Bob Fu, a religious activist who has known the lawyer for over a decade. Fu said in a statement through his U.S.-based Christian nonprofit group China Aid that the "Chinese regime should beÃâà...
CNN
February 22, 2018
A Christian school in Post Falls is moving forward with its raffle, planned for March 10, which includes a chance to win a firearm, among other items. Classical Christian Academy said it had received "many supportive calls, as well as a few critical comments."Ãâà...
Leavenworth Times
February 21, 2018
His leadership summits and crusades in more than 185 countries and territories forged powerful global links among conservative Christians, and threw a .... Graham was no social activist and never joined marches, which led prominent Christians such as theologian Reinhold Niebuhr to publicly condemnÃâà...
Kansas City Star
February 21, 2018
Fundamentalists excoriated him for his new direction and broke with him when he agreed to work with more liberal Christians in the 1950s. ... As the civil rights movement took shape, Graham was no social activist and never joined marches, which led prominent Christians such as theologian ReinholdÃâà...
Kansas City Star
February 15, 2018
The Winter Olympics have made instant celebrities of several American athletes, but only one has publicly mixed it up with the vice president of the United States. That would be Adam Rippon. Fierce on social media and unafraid to speak his mind, Rippon is a favorite of fans and media alike inÃâà...
PJ Media
February 15, 2018
LGBT Activists Bully UK Theater to Censor Christian Film About Voluntarily Leaving Gay Lifestyle ... Unlike the Westboro cult (Westboro Baptist Church of Wichita Kansas) that so vulgarly spews hateful invectives on anyone who disagrees with them, Core Issues seeks to lovingly engage in conversation andÃâà...
New York Magazine
February 1, 2018
But excerpts from an audio tape have leaked of Hawley speaking to a conclave of Christian-right activists in December that's more than a little out there, ... of famed Christian nationalist activist Dave Lane's American Renewal Project, itself financed by the virulently anti-gay American Family Association.
Middle East Eye
January 31, 2018
A US judge blocked a Kansas law that requires state contractors to certify that they do not boycott Israel. The decision was the first of its kind against such legislation. Palestinian rights activists and legal scholars said the ruling on Tuesday opens the door for striking down anti-BDS laws across the country.
Kansas City Star
December 31, 1999
The local head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) said Friday it will lead a drive to gather signatures to place the issue on the August ballot and rename the thoroughfare Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The drive is in reaction to a recent decision by the Kansas City Parks andÃâà...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
As a former Kansas Republican congressmember, Pompeo has a history of making Islamophobic statements. He's also been a major ally to the billionaire right-wing Koch brothers. For more, we speak with Lee Fang, investigative reporter with The Intercept. His 2016 piece is “Trump CIA Pick Mike PompeoÃâà...
Kansas City Star
December 31, 1999
He's run for mayor three times and pushed ten light-rail proposals onto Kansas City ballots since 1997. Or for litigious ... Memphis faced two lawsuits last year over a list that included political activists to be escorted in city hall. According to ... "I'm a peaceable individual and a professed Christian. I'm certainlyÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
December 31, 1999
"In this case, the town is saying 'No, we only want Christian or religious prayers to be given' and they're telling atheists no," he said. ... The practice was largely noncontroversial until last year, when activists opposed to a Tyson Chicken plant started attending the meetings regularly and questioned why theÃâà...
The Hutchinson News
December 31, 1999
As I argue in The Atlantic, the deeper issue is the distinctly non-Christian substance of Donald Trump's values. ... to the Southern Baptist Convention's Russell Moore, to Bishop Claude Alexander, to bible teacher Beth Moore, to anti-slavery activist Gary Haugen -- who are embracing a different and betterÃâà...
Centre Daily Times
December 31, 1999
Atheists who want to deliver an invocation at a Sedgwick County, Kansas Commission meeting can “go to hell,” a county commissioner said Tuesday. ... The practice was largely noncontroversial until last year, when activists opposed to a Tyson Chicken plant started attending the meetings regularly andÃâà...
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