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Witnesses to 'unrelenting pain'; CCO issues 7 demands in KC's COVID-19 response

There cannot be a “colorblind” response to how Kansas CIty delivers aid during the COVID-19 pandemic, said speakers in a Facebook Live rally by Communities Creating Opportunity Thursday. The city must “bear witness to the deep unrelenting pain . . . (of) a racialized system.

Rosemary Smith Lowe and Lee Bohannon honored for social activism

Founding LINC Commissioner Rosemary Smith Lowe and LINC Community Organizer Lee Bohannon were recognized by the non-profit organization Communities Creating Opportunity with their Social Movement Activist & Advocate Award for 2019.