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Celisa Calacal

Kansas City

🇵🇭 Reporter covering race + culture for @kcur | Work in @kcbeacon @thenation @alternet | Send tips, thoughts, recipes to [email protected]

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  • 4 days ago | thebeaconnews.org | Celisa Calacal

    This story was originally published on KCUR 89.3.Thousands of protesters gathered in Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, Lee’s Summit, Topeka and other cities to protest the actions of the Trump administration. Hundreds of those gathered in Kansas City marched down West 47th Street, around the Plaza and then north up Broadway Boulevard.

  • 1 week ago | kcur.org | Celisa Calacal

    A block of empty buildings in the Historic Northeast neighborhood is primed for a development upgrade that includes hundreds of new apartments and a public market. Arnold Development Group plans to turn the corner at Independence and Hardesty avenues into a community space and hub for one of the metro’s most diverse neighborhoods. Their plans include turning the 12-story Hardesty Self Storage building, completed in 1920, into apartments.

  • 1 week ago | kcur.org | Celisa Calacal

    The founder of the Black Archives of Mid-America brought Juneteenth to Kansas City in 1980. This year's celebrations include parades, festivals and historical storytelling in Kansas and Missouri.

  • 2 weeks ago | kcur.org | Celisa Calacal

    Tenants at an eastern Jackson County apartment building have reached an agreement with their new landlord that allows them to stay in their homes, and ends an 8-month-long rent strike. A majority of Independence Towers residents have withheld rent since October, making it the longest rent strike in the Kansas City region.

  • 3 weeks ago | communityvoiceks.com | Celisa Calacal

    The stone and brick foundations of the Wyandotte House Hotel peek up from the ground in the old settlement of Quindaro. It’s now an archaeological site owned by the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the City of Kansas City, Kansas. The designation from the National Park Service opens up the Quindaro Townsite to new opportunities for federal funding and assistance. The ruins, now deteriorating, were once a haven for Black people escaping slavery and for Free State abolitionists.

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Celisa Calacal
Celisa Calacal @celisa_mia
14 Apr 25

Me after watching The Fighter (2010) for the first time https://t.co/bHE8Od51fd

Celisa Calacal
Celisa Calacal @celisa_mia
9 Apr 25

For anyone following Kansas City, Missouri election night. Question 1 to renew the public safety sales tax for 20 years passed with 60% of the vote. City officials plan to use a bulk of the money from the tax to build a new city jail

Celisa Calacal
Celisa Calacal @celisa_mia
9 Mar 25

What makes this Greta Gerwig monologue far superior to the one in Barbie is that it remains grounded in Jo’s personal experience. The gut punch is Jo knowing she’s right — that women aren’t just build for love — but being crushed by her own loneliness anyways

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cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic

saoirse ronan’s monologue in little women (2019) #HappyWomensDay https://t.co/P3A0tmFRfd