Mara Williams
Assistant Managing Editor, Race and Equity Issues at Kansas City Star
A kcstar editorial writer, columnist and speaker on issues of race, equity, education and journalism. A watchdog journalist keeping an eye out for wrong doers.
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1 month ago |
kansascity.com | Mara Williams
Chef Justin Clark preparing a dish at Urban Located at Armour Road and Troost Avenue, and included in the new "Savor The City" guide to Black-own KC restaurants. [email protected] As this year's Black History Month wraps up today, a nonprofit supporting Black businesses in Kansas Cityis making a little history of its own, launching the city's first Black-owned restaurant passport. It's a guide to some popular and maybe not-so-well-known restaurants in the metro.
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2 months ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Mara Williams
The Chiefs may have lost the Super Bowl last weekend but Patrick Mahomes, simply by being on the gridiron and leading his team in the biggest football game for the third year in a row, made Black history that day. Mahomes belongs to an exclusive group of Black NFL athletes. He is one of just four Black quarterbacks ever to win a Super Bowl ring, and he is the first and only one with multiple Super Bowl victories.
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2 months ago |
kansascity.com | Mara Williams
Claude "Fiddler" Williams is remembered as a very special part of Kansas City history and on this Black History Month his contributions to our city should be celebrated. The Kansas City Star A new commercial aired during the 2025 Grammy Awards with the slogan, "You can't ban greatness." It showed the fashion, sports and popular culture advancements the world would not have witnessed had basketball great Michael Jordan and his popular Nike sneaker, the Air Jordan, not made the history they did.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
kansascity.com | Mara Williams
We tried a signature dish from Chef Justin Clark at Urban Restaurant in Kansas City, serving American food with a soulful twist on Troost.
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May 30, 2024 |
kansascity.com | Mara Williams
.Janay Reliford, who chairs the Kansas City Reparations Coalition, spoke at the Black Archives of Mid-America, a couple months ago. She spends a lot of time around the city educating people about why reparations for Black residents is important and needed. Special to The Star This interview is part of the second season of Voices of Kansas City, a project created in collaboration with KKFI Community Radio to highlight the experiences of Kansas Citians making an impact on the community.
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I learned so much about Michael B. Jordan reading this piece. The writing is great but the reporting, the questions asked make this better than most interviews with an actor. @Trey3Williams @michaelb4jordan #creedIII
Sat down (over Zoom) with @michaelb4jordan for @moviemakermag to chat a little about vulnerability, growing up, his career arch and directing Creed III. Oh, and the mutual love of the iconic 1985 blaxploitation flick The Last Dragon, one of his faves https://t.co/73PSEOp5cM https://t.co/x5JZ7at3gB
