About the author: M.M. Barron is a creative writing major and first-year student at UMKC. She graduated from Paseo Academy of Fine & Performing Arts… Read More »Upcoming Event: The March For Our Lives Kansas City
By Korrien Hopkins Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores was a Honduran activist of the Lenca people. She was born March 4, 1973 and grew up witnessing the violence… Read More »The Legacy of Berta Càceres
By Dasha Matthews Mona Hanna-Attisha is a first generation Iraqi immigrant, pediatrician, and public health advocate whose research exposed the Flint Water Crisis, revealing that children… Read More »Mona Hanna-Attisha and the Flint Water Crisis
By Tatiahna Turner The youngest of 20 children, Fannie Lou Hamer was born Fannie Lou Townsend on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi. From… Read More »Fannie Lou Hamer: Civil Rights Activist
By Megan Schwindler The Event End your week watching a movie and enjoying some free pizza and snacks with the staff at the Women’s Center.… Read More »Upcoming Event: Feminist Film Friday
By Megan Schwindler The Event Join us for an afternoon of spoken word and activism about ending gender-based violence and creating a safer campus community… Read More »Upcoming Event: Feminist Open Mic
By Korrien Hopkins Marsha P. Johnson was a leader during the standoff that culminated in the infamous Stonewall Riots, a rallying cry against police surveillance… Read More »Marsha P. Johnson: The Pioneer
By Dasha Matthews Born Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, Baker is known as an extremely popular singer and dancer from… Read More »The Activism of Josephine Baker
By Dasha Matthews Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, better known as Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She is known… Read More »Ida B. Wells: Suffragist, Feminist, and Leader
by Thea Voutiritsas Join us Wednesday, April 12th at 6pm in the UMKC Pierson Auditorium for the LGBTQIA Pride Month Lecture featuring Angelica Ross! Miss… Read More »LGBTQIA Pride Month Lecture featuring Angelica Ross