Beacon analysis: Restaurant relief funds flowed to whiter, more affluent areas of Kansas City

Editor’s note: The following story was originally published by The Kansas City Beacon, a nonprofit, public-service journalism newsroom serving Kansas and Missouri. Click here to read the original story or here to sign up for the free Kansas City Beacon email newsletter. [divide] Local businesses received a total of $53 million from the fund, but few of those dollars…

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Tea shop on Troost finds its flavor at the intersection of herbal serenity, cultural activism

Kansas City’s air is thick with revolution and restoration, contemplated Nika Cotton.  “In the social and cultural climate, it’s really a time that people are rising up. The systems are changing. We’re talking about the abolition of police departments, the abolition of the industrial prison system — really exciting things,” Cotton said amid a flurry of…

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