Editor’s Note: The Journal-World asked each City Commission candidate in this year’s general election to provide written responses to five questions regarding current issues facing the City of Lawrence. Each candidate was given 850 words in total to respond to the five questions. The Journal-World staff compiled a brief biography of each candidate using information from past interviews and their candidate ...
When Reginald Brown was walking to school in the third grade and first called a sissy and slurs for gay people, Brown didn’t even know the meaning of the words.
“About five or six older boys from my neighborhood, from the sixth grade, surrounded me and started calling me [expletive], punk and sissy,” Brown said. “I had no idea what these words meant, but I could tell from their tone of voice, the look ...
The city’s bus service, Lawrence Transit, is holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the construction and installation of five wooden bus shelters hand-built by students at Peaslee Tech.
The public is invited to attend the event, which will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday and begin with a gathering for coffee and socially distant mingling and will include remarks from city leaders and others involved ...
City leaders will soon review the Lawrence Police Department’s draft policy for its use of drones and other camera systems, which is intended to prohibit uses such as invasions of privacy, targeted harassment and monitoring protests.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will receive a presentation from the police department on the draft “public safety camera” policy. Interim Chief ...
In a conversation that spanned the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the politicization of critical race theory, Ibram X. Kendi ended with the idea that the country can heal from racism and even overcome it.
Kendi, the author of “How To Be An Antiracist” and “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction, ...
Lawrence NAACP President Ursula Minor will give a presentation Thursday about the lynching of three Black men in 1882 and the ongoing project to commemorate the event.
Pete Vinegar, Isaac King and George Robertson were lynched by a mob at the Kansas River bridge near downtown Lawrence on June 10, 1882. The Lawrence branch of the NAACP has been working since 2019 with the Equal Justice Initiative, which created ...
