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Tomorrow's #ElectionDay! Get ready to #Vote https://kclinc.org//vote-411-has-everything-you-need-to-kn

Another big week at #MorningStarBaptist! Here are the latest #Covid19vaccinations totals.

Watch as Clyde McQueen talks about the team strength between LINC and the The Full Employment Council, and see how you can get help. https://kclinc.org//linc-full-employment-council-partnersh

Looking forward to this Community Fair! Sign up! Hope to see you there! Find Mr. Matt for more info! 816-866-3832

Here's helping Evergy spread the word. Read about how to get help with utility bills and rent. #Utilityassistance #Pandemic relief. https://kclinc.org//evergy-alert-more-aid-available-to-hel

See who you can call for #RentalAssistance with the new #Covid19 relief funds. As announced by U.S. Rep Emanuel Cleaver II these funds are essential. https://kclinc.org//30-million-in-rent-relief-coming-to-kc

Lincoln High School 1890. From their first steps onto Diasporic soil, Africans in America, now African Americans, have recognized the importance of obtaining an education. In most places in the United States, it was illegal to teach an enslaved person how to read or do arithmetic unless it benefitted the owner. With these skills, enslaved men (and some women, who learned clandestinely) could then help with market sales, measurements, and making goods. The number of Black peo...ple who were literate grew as they shared their knowledge with others in their community. Newly freed people shared three primary goals, according to historical records: to own their own land, to raise their families independent of the interference of others, and to have their children become literate. Being able to read and write meant that they could no longer be fooled into contracts that bound them to former owners or put their lives, homes, or livelihoods at risk. The lives of the people in this book reflect those goals. - Carmaletta M. Williams, Ph.D.Executive Director, The Black Archives of Mid-America, Inc. - Kansas City Lincoln College Preparatory Academy Download the 2021 Kansas City Black History book to read the full essay and more at kcblackhistory.org . #kcblackhistory #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #kcmo #kansascity . A partnership of Local Investment Commission (LINC) Kansas City Public Library The Black Archives of Mid-America, Inc. - Kansas City

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Vaccination info (sign up!), food stamps relief, and a chance to talk with the The Kansas City Star about its racial reckoning: weekend news tips from LINC, kclinc.org 1. Sign up surveys are proliferating for #Covid19 vaccinations and it's OK to sign up on multiple lists https://www.kansascity.com//coronavi/article248666285.html. Here's our info with links to signups and testing opportunities https://kclinc.org//covid-19-vaccinations-coming-heres-how. 2. President Biden ...has ordered a boost in the aid families receive through SNAP (food stamps) by 15% https://n.pr/2Y7EY7b. Here is our emergency food page with important links: https://kclinc.org/food-resources 3. The Kansas City Star has drawn wide attention by its recent apology and commitment to racial reparations. Here's how you can join a virtual town hall hosted by the Kansas City Public Library https://kclinc.org//rsvp-now-racial-reckoning-at-the-kansa 4. Here's how LINC came to the aid of families who lost everything in the Waldo Heights Apts fire https://kclinc.org//linc-rushes-to-aid-families-in-devasta. We're also working with First Call to better understand #addiction in our work https://kclinc.org//first-call-lincworks-train-to-help-par

This book shares the stories of incredible people that once shared this city and this nation with us. Each and every day, I enter City Hall as the third-ever Black mayor of Kansas City knowing that I would not be where I am without people like Roy Wilkins, who is a recognized giant of the Civil Rights Movement and started out as a member of The Kansas City Call. I hear distant jazz outside my window from 18th and Vine Street and thank Charlie Bird Parker, William Count... Basie, and Mary Lou Williams, who once graced these same streets. I know this collection will make its way to schools, libraries, and historical societies throughout our community. It’s possible that a little boy or girl with a new library card will stumble across it and realize that so many people, across so many decades, worked together to build the community they live in. Maybe they’ll realize that, someday, they can also carry on this continuous work of building a better country. I know they will. - Mayor Quinton Lucas Download the 2021 Kansas City Black History book to read the full essay and more at KCBlackHistory.org #kcblackhistory #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #kcmo #kansascity . A partnership with Kansas City Public Library and The Black Archives of Mid-America, Inc. - Kansas City .

Reminder! This week is a little different with parent conferences! Tuesday and Wednesday evening are conferences. 6th-8th grade conferences are from 3:30-7:30pm and K-5th grade conferences are 4:30-8:30p. Thursday, Nov. 12th is early release. 6th-8th grade releases at 12:15 and K-5th grade releases at 1:05. On Thursday we WILL have morning LINC but will NOT have afternoon LINC. ... Friday is a no school day. No LINC Program. Please call with any questions!

Check out legal help with mortgage problems for #JacksonCounty residents from Legal Aid of Western Missouri://kclinc.org/news/2020/11/6/mortgage-worries-free-legal-help-available-for-some-jackson-county-owners

See how you can apply for #InternetAccess. KC Digital Drive the #KC Coalition for #DigitalInclusion Mid America Assistance Coalition://kclinc.org/news/2020/11/9/relief-fund-can-help-many-households-get-internet-access

Counting Covid-19 cases (and votes); a boost for pandemic food distributors; and a chance to express yourself during a "Month of Gratitude" -- here comes the weekend at LINC, kclinc.org 1. Votes are still being counted, but so are coronavirus cases and deaths. A new record of 121,000 new cases were recorded Thursday http://ow.ly/Y23e50CdGmi, and the growing stress on KC-area hospital intensive care units is concerning. http://ow.ly/I9x250CdGm6 2. Kansas City providers of fo...od during the pandemic got a boost as the Missouri Department of Agriculture announced up to $25,000 in funding each through the Food Insecure Urban Agriculture Matching Grant http://ow.ly/bXq050CdGm1. Keep track of nutrition opportunities at kclinc.org/food-resources 3. For sure 2020 has been a hard year. But KC Parks and Recreation is giving everyone a chance to reflect on reasons to be grateful by posting Gratitude Walls with blank canvasses to write in grateful feelings at area parks http://ow.ly/YLia50CdGlS.

We waken to the fresh realization of our divided nation. But the best expression of ourselves remains in how we turn to the faces in our own communities with comfort and peace -- a word (and news tips) from LINC, http://ow.ly/hEnH50CbtfW 1. Our work, your work, carries on http://ow.ly/dHg550CbtfU. 2. Oh, and the record-breaking Covid numbers surge on http://ow.ly/25fs50Cbtg7. KC-area schools watch anxiously as some are forced back to virtual http://ow.ly/2cMA50Cbtfr. Here’s a... look at how Germany keeps its schools open, compared to the USA http://ow.ly/wRqR50Cbtgt. 3. Back on the election, it is notable that Americans voted with unprecedented zeal here and across the nation. We particularly enjoyed voting at Arrowhead Stadium https://kclinc.org//voting-at-arrowhead-our-responsibility.

It's #ElectionDay fun with the The Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead. Any voter who lives in the KC portion of Jackson County can cast their ballot here until 7 p.m. #Vote #Vote #Vote.

The League of Women Voters of Kansas City, Jackson, Platte & Clay Counties can connect you. Go to https://www.lwvkc.org/content.aspx. Pass it on!

See how the school attendance crisis is "bigger than you think"; ways to talk about the election in virtual class (whatever happens); and final voting info -- tips for a momentous week from LINC, http://ow.ly/UXJw50C9gmb 1. All right. Time to embrace the power and joy of voting. Polls in Missouri open tomorrow from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Look up your voting site here http://ow.ly/bYyx50C9gm5. Help family, friends and neighbors vote. If you need a ride to the polls or need other vot...ing info, go to lwvkc.org 2. LINC has been working hard http://ow.ly/r2cL50C9gmp with our partner districts on attendance and engagement during Covid https://kclinc.org//hickman-mills-campaign-against-chronic. The nation is dealing with a pandemic attendance crisis that Education Post reports is bigger than you think. http://ow.ly/5sGx50C9glD 3. The new week arrives filled with uncertainty about what’s ahead. Here’s a high school history teacher’s thoughts on how to talk with students about the election in our virtual world in unbiased ways that support their emotional well-being, intellectual growth, and human dignity. http://ow.ly/gE3v50C9glU

The growing tide against "falling back," Covid hospitalizations, and safe trick-or-treating -- sending you into the weekend, from LINC, http://ow.ly/ThJj50C7h7D 1. Time for an increasingly unpopular task: Falling back to standard time. Daylight Savings ends Sunday morning, though more states are moving against it http://ow.ly/qPXF50C7h7N, even with some apologies for giving an extra hour back to the forgettable year that is 2020 http://ow.ly/Cbiz50C7h85. 2. The rise of Covi...d-19 cases is bringing sick patients from rural Missouri into already-crowded KC hospitals, says KCUR http://ow.ly/YlbN50C7h71. There is at least some relief, however, that the death rates for seriously ill Covid patients appears to be dropping http://ow.ly/MGMY50C7h7o. 3. We’ve been having fun in our Caring Communities with drive-through Trunk and Treats like this one https://kclinc.org//dancing-with-dinosaurs-for-books-and-t, but if you’re looking to trick-or-treat, here’s the KC Star’s tips to do it safely http://ow.ly/4JSU50C7h7e.

The Community Assistance Council rallying community support as the threat of evictions, utility cutoffs and homelessness grows. https://kclinc.org//80-calls-in-one-day-community-assistan

Why are more majority Black school districts likely to be distance learning? What's at stake Nov. 3 for schools? Those questions plus a look at a success story in Thursday's links from LINC http://ow.ly/Ko2Z50C6a9I 1. You might have noticed that KC area districts serving higher concentrations of families of color than white are more likely to still be in distance learning. A study by The 74 shows this is a national trend, marked by vulnerability to the virus, lack of trust ...and a political divide http://ow.ly/okKZ50C6a9C. 2. As we near election day, here is Chalkbeat’s analysis listing 8 big consequences at stake in the outcome, including budgets, private schools and civil rights disparities http://ow.ly/oXeB50C6a90. 3. Here’s a look at how one of our local districts built relationships with students and families and kept them strong during the pandemic’s isolation https://kclinc.org//hickman-mills-campaign-against-chronic.

On tap for today: An examination of police stops; federal level interest in KC lawsuit against evictions; and the pandemic's unrelenting pain. Links from LINC, http://ow.ly/VFH450C5amL 1. Are you a person of color and have a story about being stopped by police? You can contribute to an investigation http://ow.ly/pmUa50C5amA by Flatland and PBS Kansas City in a multi-part series and town hall http://ow.ly/CYFP50C5ao4. 2. The federal government is weighing into a court battle a...gainst evictions by KCTenants http://ow.ly/iMuF50C5anO. Filings are up in KC despite a CDC moratorium http://ow.ly/RDS550C5anX in a situation of intense difficulty for renters and landlords http://ow.ly/rrqc50C5an5. 3. KC’s deadliest month of the pandemic http://ow.ly/X9LV50C5amD includes the loss of a former chief environmental officer http://ow.ly/7ptG50C5anw. Hospitals are reeling nationwide http://ow.ly/GS7s50C5amN. And remember, here’s how local medical directors described pain unlike any we’ve ever seen. https://kclinc.org/news/2020/9/3/doctors-dire-covid-warning

Mail-in ballot urgency, notaries, Covid's shadow over KCPS and more help with food resources for your Tuesday news links from LINC. kclinc.org 1. One week to election day and the Postal Service says if you still have a mail-in ballot, you better send it off today to get there in time http://ow.ly/3a2k50C3XlS. Missourians must get mail-in ballots notarized. Find notaries at lwvkc.org 2. As virus news worsens more than 80 KC-area deaths the past week http://ow.ly/wcat50C3XlF... Kansas City Public Schools is backing off plans to bring elementary children into classrooms Nov. 9. The new date kids come back in will depend on the data going forward http://ow.ly/onNP50C3XlP. 3. Missouri has been given a USDA waiver to continue giving eligible food stamps households the maximum benefits possible through November http://ow.ly/jQ2n50C3Xf9. Learn about food stamps as well as emergency food distributions for everyone and other services at our resource page, kclinc.org/help