Tag: Darion Moore

The Distrikc, AbdulRasheed Yahaya, Michelle Richmond, Ryan S. Harvey, Mark Launiu, Deaunte Thomas, Wesley Hamilton, and Darion Moore

The Distrikc founders: We’re not waiting on outsiders to save our brothers and sisters

By Tommy Felts / May 10, 2019

It’s time for members of Kansas City’s largely unseen and forgotten communities of color to take control, said Wesley Hamilton, one of the organizers behind The Distrikc. “We speak so much about KC, but people forget whole groups of people — I’m talking Troost to Main, East Kansas City, South Kansas City,” he said. “We want…

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Nipsey Hussle Kansas City

‘Heartbreaking but empowering’: Nipsey Hussle’s life, death inspire entrepreneurs to action

By Tommy Felts / April 11, 2019

The Marathon will continue, Wesley Hamilton said, echoing tens of thousands of mourners now pledging to keep alive the transcendent entrepreneurial spirit of rapper-turned-community leader Nipsey Hussle. Hamilton, founder and executive director of the KC-based nonprofit The Disabled But Not Really Foundation, was among a dozen or more Kansas City entrepreneurs in Los Angeles Thursday…

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