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Decades before Nicole Price earned her PhD, bought a home in Kansas City’s Northland and owned a business, her family was robbed. Their property on the corner of a Mississippi cotton plantation was stolen from them by white landowners. Her ancestors couldn’t read. They weren’t allowed to go to court to try to get it back. So they were forced to pick up and move elsewhere. “What would my current wealth category look like if I had acres of land in Mississippi that had been passed down to me that I still get to drive by today?” Price asked. Price, 46, now owns a leadership development company and was introduced to the idea of race-related reparations after working for more than a decade in diversity and inclusion. She prefers to say “repair harm” instead of the more politically-loaded word “reparations.” But whatever she calls it, Price believes it is well past due. And she’s not alone. A movement for Black reparations is underway in Kansas City. This Black History Month, The Star i...

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