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Who signs off on changing a street name like Troost Avenue? Here’s a look at what it takes
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 12 months agoTroost Avenue was originally named after a slave-owner and now more than 1,600 residents want to see...
‘We don’t just have to live with it’: KC business owner pitches new name for Troost Avenue
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 2 years agoChris Goode grew up near a Kansas City street that honors a slave owner and now owns a business...
KC almost stripped a slave owner’s name off a street. Then Mayor Lucas got in the way | Opinion
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 2 months agoKansas City had a rare opportunity to rename Troost Avenue. Then Mayor Quinton Lucas stepped in and...
Relics of racism belong in museums, not on Kansas City street signs | Opinion
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 12 months agoGOP megadonor Harlan Crow says his statues of communist dictators are there to remember their...
Quit living in the past, Kansas City. Time to lose that Andrew Jackson statue downtown | Opinion
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 7 months agoEach new generation establishes values for itself and challenges symbols of the past that may no...
Sports columnist Vahe Gregorian shares his favorite KC sites. What’s on your list?
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 1 month agoYour Guide to KC: Star sports columnist Vahe Gregorian is changing uniforms this spring and summer,...
Did the Underground Railroad run through KC’s Swope Park? This historian thinks so | Opinion
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn her 1975 book “Jackson County Pioneers,” author Pearl Wilcox writes: “A patrol fence was...
Do Kansas City schools already have their next superintendent? Faith leaders say yes
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year agoA group of prominent faith leaders on Thursday endorsed Jennifer Collier for Kansas City Public...
Kansas Citians will walk for four days on ‘Trail of Mending’ to reckon with local history
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe “moving ceremony” hosted by nonprofit Clement Waters invites people to march across the metro to...
