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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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  • 1 week 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.

  • 1 week ago | kcur.org | Celisa Calacal

    Family and friends gathered Tuesday to mourn the death of Sarah Milgrim, less than a week after she was shot and killed outside an event at the Jewish Capitol Museum in Washington, D.C.Local rabbis, Jewish leaders, and a member of the Israeli embassy gave remarks at Congregation Beth Torah, in Overland Park, Kansas. The funeral was private, but streamed live online.

  • 2 weeks ago | kake.com | Celisa Calacal

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  • 2 weeks ago | kcur.org | Celisa Calacal

    The Quindaro Townsite in Kansas City, Kansas — once a stop along the Underground Railroad for people escaping slavery and a home to abolitionists during the “Free State” era — received National Historic Landmark status from the federal government on Thursday. Quindaro now joins the more than 2,500 national historic landmarks across the U.S. that are “nationally significant in American history and culture,” according to the National Parks Service.

  • 2 weeks ago | kcur.org | Celisa Calacal

    Sarah Milgrim, a 26-year-old who grew up in Johnson County, Kansas, was one of the victims of a fatal shooting last night in Washington, D.C.The shooting took place outside the Capitol Jewish Museum, where an event was taking place for young Jewish diplomats. Milgrim and her partner, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, were outside the museum when a gunman approached their group and opened fire. Milgrim and Lischinsky both worked for the Israeli Embassy. The gunman, Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, is now in custody.

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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

cinesthetic.
cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic

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