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Author Archives: Mili Mansaray

MILI MANSARAY is the housing and labor reporter at The Kansas City Beacon. Previously, she was a freelance reporter and Summer 2020 intern.

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view of 18th Street in Kansas City shows banners and signs celebrating Black history
Posted inCivic Engagement

25 Ways to celebrate Juneteenth in Kansas City, and to keep supporting Black communities

by Mili Mansaray June 16, 2022June 16, 2022

Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the official ending of slavery in the United States. Although enslaved people were emancipated throughout the Confederacy by Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn’t until June 19, 1865, that federal troops arrived at Galveston, Texas, to free the remaining enslaved people in the remote Confederate stronghold. Though an […]

Posted inHealth Care

Resilience, art, healing: KC area event to focus on Black communities’ mental health

by Mili Mansaray October 12, 2021June 1, 2022
T'erra and Cleveland Chatmon outside their home in Bonner Springs, Kansas. The Chatmons receive individual and marital counseling through Journey Embraced, a Black-owned therapy organization.
Posted inHealth Care

For Black Kansas Citians seeking therapy, having a Black counselor makes a difference

by Mili Mansaray July 27, 2021June 1, 2022
Kansas City jazz drummer Tyree Johnson in Kansas City’s 18th & Vine District. Chase Castor/The Beacon
Posted inEconomics

Without live gigs, Kansas City jazz musicians get creative

by Mili Mansaray February 24, 2021June 1, 2022
For Adria Berryhill, a transgender woman in Kansas City, Missouri, casting a vote has also meant using a driver's license that does not match her identity. (Zachary Linhares/The Beacon)
Posted inCivic Engagement

For trans and nonbinary voters, photo ID requirements can discourage participating in elections

by Mili Mansaray October 24, 2020June 1, 2022
Lyndsey Gruber-Chatfield works on her service called PEPPR. After the shut downs due to COVID-19 left her with no business she had to come up with new ways to make her business work. (Chase Castor/Beacon)
Posted inEconomics

As COVID presses on, small businesses in Kansas City get creative to survive

by Mili Mansaray September 8, 2020June 1, 2022
Posted inEconomics

In the midst of a pandemic, tenants face the looming threat of eviction

by Mili Mansaray August 19, 2020June 1, 2022

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