Tag: black lives matter
Top News Stories of 2020
Bethani Thompson reveals the top 5 news stories from all of the events in 2020.
LSW Panel for Equity and Diversity – Panel 1
Panel of Lee's Summit West students and staff. From left to right, top to bottom: Matt Turner-Social Studies, Senior Mohamed Haji, Mary Humphries-English, April...
How a Hashtag is Changing the LSR-7 School District
Anna Eulinger and Lily Salmond
As the Black Lives Matter movement raced across the nation, a Twitter hashtag initiated by West alumna Maryam Khalil sparked...
How West Students Work to Support the Black Lives Matter Movement
Anna Long and Hayden Peters
Senior Mohamed Haji said that seeing the footage of George Floyd’s murder caused him to tear up. “It could have...
West Students Protest Police Brutality
On the weekend of May 30th, protesters gathered on the Plaza to protest systemic racism and police brutality within the city’s police department and...
Is Black Lives Matter still relevant?
Commentary by Hannah Bushman
An unarmed black teen was fatally shot while walking home. Sound familiar? If the answer is no, chances are you don’t...
