To understand Kansas, you must understand Black Kansas. The history of Black Kansans is a story of courage, determination, faith, and achievement. It begins with freedom seekers, Black homesteaders, and Exodusters who came to Kansas after the Civil War looking for opportunity, land ownership, self-determination, and citizenship. Thousands of African Americans left the South and traveled west to build new lives. They established farms, schools, churches, businesses, and entire

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By Cat Butler Five decades into the abject failure that is the War on Drugs, our country is struggling with an opioid epidemic with no end in sight. Law enforcement and the judicial system have more money, courts, and jails than ever and yet there seems to be no end in sight for criminal enterprise or personal substance usage. In a report December 4, 2024 written by Harm Reduction International, The US government has spent over $1 trillion on this ‘war’ to no avail. Incarce