Kansas City Celebrates Gwen Grant

Forgive our #TBT nostalgia . . . However . . .

Local history will likely remember as one of the foremost advocate for Civil Rights in Kansas City. 

Let's remember . . .

Longtime conservatives have always admired her for an enthusiastic willingness to debate and engage with other side of the aisle in defense of her ideas and convictions. 

 Agree or disagree . . . And most of our readers might take at least a bit of umbrage . . . 

There is no denying her commitment to public service and community.

Accordingly . . .

Here's a newspaper note on an EPIC career arc . . .  

"This is the week Kansas City gets to celebrate Gwendolyn Grant, who has served this city for 34 years with the Urban League of Greater Kansas City.

The Urban League is throwing Grant, president and CEO of the organization, a retirement party and she tells me she wants it to be exactly that: a big bash. It also ought to be a chance for those invited to show up and say thank you for her many years leading this civil rights and social justice organization."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Celebrating Gwen Grant: thanks for fighting for civil rights and social justice

Grant announced her retirement in March at the Urban League's Difference Maker Awards. Now they're throwing her a party so we can thank her.

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