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Tonganoxie apartheid? Yeah, kinda…

African Americans routinely face this treatment from law enforcement and not just in Tonganoxie. Daily, police harass black people for stealing their own car, barbecuing in the park, or awaiting Starbucks meetings. In the system, they receive harsher sentences for similar crimes.

April 1, 2019

Statement from LULAC State Director, Madaí Rivera

When our legal representative, the ACLU of Kansas, wrote Ford County Clerk Debbie Cox last year asking her support for a voter rights protection effort, Cox famously forwarded the letter to the Secretary of State’s office with the reply, “LOL.”

January 18, 2019