The Kansas City Star released an apology for a racist past on Sunday. The paper had a team of journalists conduct a “full” investigation of black community coverage all the way back to its founding in 1880, saying the reporters were “often sick of what they found.” The coverage, the paper said, “portrayed Black Kansas Citians as criminals living in a crime-laden world. They were ashamed of what was missing: the achievements, aspirations and milestones of an entire population that were routinely overlooked, as if black people were invisible. The paper said it had “disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians. It strengthened Jim Crow laws and redlining. Decade after early decade, it robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice, and recognition.” The article, the first of a six-part series, contained three words that were said to have been long overdue: “We’re sorry.”
Read it up The Kansas City Star