OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) The daughter of the lead plaintiff in the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case will discuss the case and the 14th Amendment next month at Johnson County Community College. Cheryl Brown Henderson is scheduled to speak about the landmark desegregation case Feb. 12 at Craig Community Auditorium on the Overland Park campus. She’ll speak about the 14th Amendment during an appearance the following evening at the college’s Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. The Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in the Topeka case declared that separate schools for black and white children where inherently unequal. The…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A professor of African-American studies at the University of Massachusetts will deliver the second installment of Washburn University’s Lincoln Lecture Series. Manisha Sinha will present “Race and Equality in the Age of Lincoln” Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. at the Memorial Union. Her lecture is free and open to the public. Yale University Press is publishing her soon-to-be released “To Live and Die in the Holy Cause: Abolition and the Origins of America’s Interracial Democracy.” She also wrote “The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina.” Recently, Sinha was a featured commentator on “The…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A veteran state senator says he’s considering running for mayor and CEO of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan. Kansas City Democrat David Haley says he’ll make a decision by the end of the week. Last week, two-term Mayor and CEO Joe Reardon said he won’t run for re-election because he wants to spend more time with his family. The mayoral primary is Feb. 26, with the general election set for April 2. The 54-year-old Haley was appointed to the Kansas House in 1994 and served there until he was elected to the…
Wednesday night saw a special meeting for the Manhattan Ogden school board as they continue to examine the options before them on the school schedules. The board has already held the public hearing for the high school schedule and has decided more discussion is needed for that item. Wednesday was the time for concern for the elementary schedule. In December three options were presented. Option A, which was deemed “the best” by the working group, “increases individual planning time within the school day to 330 minutes per week, provides for one 60 minute period each week for grade level collaboration…
Brittney Griner scored 29 points, grabbed seven rebounds, blocked three shots, and threw down a one-handed dunk as #1 Baylor beat K-State 90-69 on Wednesday night at Bramlage Coliseum. Griner shot 12 of 19 from the field, and made five of nine attempts from the foul line. Her dunk came with 4:38 remaining in the game to put the Lady Bears up 83-58. Brittany Chambers led the Wildcats with 23 points and five assists. She drained four of nine from three-point range, as K-State (10-7, 1-4) attempted the second-most three-pointers in a single game by a Big 12 team since…
We continue on with Cathy’s journey. [mp3-jplayer]
Cathy talks schools on today’s InFocus, as USD 383 Board Vice President Curt Herrman and Associate Superintendent Bob Seymour talk about the recent group of meetings they’ve been having, followed by an update from Kevin Ingram, President at the Manhattan Christian College. [mp3-jplayer]
The Randolph City Council has seen a filing as the Riley County Clerk’s office notified KMAN Jane Dunstan has officially filed. KMAN will keep you updated on filings throughout the county.
USD 384 Blue Valley has seen a filing for District 1, Position 4. On Wednesday, the Riley County Clerk’s Office sent out word Angie Pfizenmaier has officially filed.
School board and city races are attracting attention and on Wednesday the Pottawatomie County Clerk informed KMAN of a number of filings. For USD 322 for Position Five, Randy Kufahl has filed and for USD 323 for Position Four Michael Gee has filed, for Position Five Mark Caffrey and Norbert Marek, Jr have filed and for Position Six Jon Srna has filed. For city races, in Louisville, Rick Weeks and Erwin Sender have filed as council members; in Onaga, Gary Holthaus has filed for Mayor; in Olsburg, James Nelson has filed for Mayor and Matt Schreiber and Dallas Davis have…