Kansas City Star apologizes for racially biased coverage: 'The sins of our past still reverberate today'
Kansas City Star newspaper is apologizing for decades of racially biased coverage, writing that for much of the Star's early history, "through sins of both commission and omission, it disenfranchised, ignored, and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians. "In his Sunday article, Mike Fannin decried the role the 140-year-old newspaper played in reinforcing Jim Crow laws and redlining, saying that for "decade after early decade it robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice, and recognition.