Engagement Tag: Civil Rights

UMKC Center for Neighborhoods Voter Registration Drive

UMKC Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Social Work

The Center for Neighborhoods is hosting a series of voter registration drives in the community.

UMKC Law School Works To Slow Tide of KC Evictions

UMKC COVID-19, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Government, Youth Programming

A recent report from KCUR indicates the dire situation many Kansas City renters are currently facing.

UMKC Indigenous Art Exhibition

UMKC Arts & Culture, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Gregg Deal’s exhibition Yadooa Hookwu (I Will Speak Now), explores indigenous identity through multiple forms of expression.

15th Annual Women of Color Leadership Conference

UMKC Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Speakers & Lecture Series, Training & Professional Development

The virtual keynote and fireside chat will take place June 4th.

Midwest Innocence Project

UMKC Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The nonprofit provides resources for and about wrongfully convicted individuals in the Midwest.

César Chávez Lecture Series Returns for 2021

UMKC Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Speakers & Lecture Series

The lecture series, which was postponed indefinitely in 2020, will return April 8th.

A New Online Exhibit Brings Insight into the 1968 Kansas City Uprising

UMKC Collaboration, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

LaBudde Special Collections at UMKC, in collaboration with the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center and Prospect Business Association, has put together an online exhibit highlighting the days following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

An Inside Look at the Impetus and Funding for KC Art On the Block- Black Lives Matter Murals

UMKC Arts & Culture, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Nonprofit

Learn how KC Art on the Block materialized, the fundraising behind it, and what the nonprofit sector can learn from its success.

Critical Conversations: The Future of Policing in Kansas City: A Discussion with Mayor Lucas

UMKC Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The University of Missouri-Kansas City Division of Diversity and Inclusion will hold a series of critical conversations addressing systemic racism in the United States. This installment will feature Kansas City Mayor, Quinton Lucas.

UMKC Analysis Finds Few Pandemic Loans Went to Women, Minorities

UMKC Community Development, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Research & Data

Brent Never, coordinator of the new UMKC Institute for Data Education, Analytics and Science, conducted an analysis of the Paycheck Protection Program loans. The analysis and found only 341 of 4,677 went to minority- or women-owned firms. Read the full story from Fox4KC.

KC Voices [podcast]: We Beg to Differ on Panhandling

UMKC Community Education, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Education

In this episode we meet some of the KC area residents who brave the winter cold, sweltering heat and dangerous road conditions to beg for your generosity.

KC No Violence Alliance (NoVA)

UMKC Collaboration, Community Development, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

NoVA is a multi-agency collaboration between Kansas City criminal justice agencies that focuses on addressing violent crime. Faculty within the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology (in the College of Arts and Sciences) have worked with NoVA since 2013.

UMKC Law Child & Family Services Clinic

UMKC Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Mental Health, Youth Programming

The UMKC Child and Family Services Clinic is a free legal service for parents, relatives and custodians needing help to obtain court order to provide permanent homes for children who are victims of abuse or neglect.

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