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Following weeks of protests against racism in Kansas City, Missouri, the Jackson County legislature is leaving the future of two Andrew Jackson statues outside of the county courthouses to the voters.

The lasting effects of COVID-19 and how the coronavirus is affecting schools reopening, celebrating the first organized professional Black baseball league, and how prescient past movies have been when compared to current protests and the pandemic.

In one of the Thursday incidents, an officer underwent emergency surgery after being shot in the head during an exchange of gunfire with a suspect near 31st and Van Brunt.

The lawsuit comes after the city council approved an ordinance dismissing charges against non-violent demonstrators.

Armed protesters and vigilantes are able to operate freely in much of the country. That’s because many states have increasingly relaxed gun laws, leaving law enforcement unable or unwilling to step in, even when protesters say they are being intimidated.

One controversy involving the Kansas City Police Department has to do with oversight from the Office of Community Complaints. Critics say the office rarely rules against law enforcement, and are raising questions about how effective and fair it is.

Mayor Quinton Lucas wants voter input on local control of the Kansas City Police Department, advertisers are finding new ways to keep brands in front of consumers, and how the pandemic is affecting the wine industry.

A proposal backed by metro faith leaders would put before voters the question of bringing KCPD under local control for the first time since the 1930s.

Police responding to Kansas City protests over the killing of George Floyd broke multiple bones in Humberto Gonzalez's leg by firing a crowd-control device at him from point-blank range.

The effects of post-Civil War lynchings and racist massacres are still being felt today, a former Marine who was injured by police at a Kansas City protest tells his story, and a long-term study on unwanted pregnancy refutes claims that abortions hurt women.

Perspective: Will the events of 2020 force Kansas City to reckon with the opposing forces that have defined us from the beginning?

What are journalists' responsibilities to the public in times like this? Is being objective even a realistic goal? The Media Critics are in.