Community Organizations Archives

Interview with Murad A. Baheyadeen, President of Move-Love Kansas City

Community Organizations / By cascadenelson

Interview with Murad A. Baheyadeen, President of Move-Love Kansas City. Our mission is to inspire young men and ladies to pursue not only successful lives but lives of value, purpose, and service. To that end, we want to provide equitable access to leadership development opportunities and resources through engaging with our youth and supplying them …

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Reparations Are here. Are you getting yours?

Community Organizations, Uncategorized / By cascadenelson

Mickey Dean with the KC Reparations Coalition provides a detailed presentation on the history of reparations and what reparations look like externally and internally. Finally, Mickey shares true cases where reparations are currently being distributed and or in great progress toward delivering long overdue repair to the black community. Mickey Dean

Interview with Beto Lugo Martinez, Executive Director CleanAirNow- Solidarity for Climate Justice

Community Organizations / By cascadenelson

Beto Lugo-Martinez moved to Kansas City from California a few years ago; he knew he couldn’t leave his years of environmental justice advocacy in the rearview mirror. Seeing the largely Hispanic residents in Wyandotte County – the poorest in the state – with a 20-year shorter life expectancy and higher rates of lung and heart …

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Interview with Khadijah Hardaway Carolyn Bryant Dunham Accusation That led To Emmett Till Murder

Community Organizations / By cascadenelson

Carolyn Bryant Dunham was named nearly 67 years ago in a warrant that accused her in Emmett till’s abduction even before his mangled body was found in a river FBI records show that she was never arrested or brought to trial in a case that shocked the world for its brutality

Children of Incarcerated Parents Interview with My’Kole Robinson

Community Organizations, Featured Interviews / By cascadenelson

This interview with My’Kole Robinson is a follow-up to our last interview with children of incarcerated parents. My’Kole’s mother, OnRea Knox Lewis, was our guest. In this interview, Robinson discusses what it was like for her while her mother was serving a 12-month sentence in a federal correctional institution My’Kole discusses are some of the …

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Children of Incarcerated Parents Interview with OnRea Knox lewis

Civil Rights, Community Organizations / By cascadenelson

Cascade Media Group is looking forward to Partnering with the nonprofit organization Children of Incarcerated Parents (COIP) shortly. CMG is producing a new weekly show that will look into parents that have been incarcerated along with the challenges their families have to face day today while their family member does their time. OnRea discusses the …

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Interview With Wichita “Us Doing US” Community Activist Treva Smith

Civil Rights, Community Organizations / By cascadenelson

Interview With Wichita “Us Doing US” Community Activist Treva Smith We talked about the Car Caravan 01/22/2022 Reminding People The Injustice That Was Done To A 17 old Wichita Youth Cedric Lofton.

Interview With Wichita Author Community Activist Mary Dean

Community Organizations, News / By cascadenelson

We talk about Mary new book “Black legends of Kansas” and what that entails also we talk about her stay at Boeing airlines we also ended the conversation with how important is Black media in general

Nichole Lee is the campaign Manager for a youth-led advocacy Group

Community Organizations / By cascadenelson

Nichole Lee is the campaign Manager for a youth-led advocacy Group. The group deals with juveniles and young adults in Wichita.

The Birth of the Black Panthers

Civil Rights, Community Organizations, News / By cascadenelson

Be Woke Presents Black History in Two Minutes (or so) Home Electrified by the rhetoric of Malcolm X, founding members Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale created an organization aimed at protecting the Black community from racism and violence. And thus, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, Calif., in October of …

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