KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Armed with her pen and always fighting for a bigger purpose – Lucile Harris Bluford helped change the landscape of Kansas City. At the age of seven, Bluford moved with her family to ...

Lucile Bluford is shown working in the offices of the Kansas City Call. She eventually became the owner and publisher of the respected black weekly newspaper she joined in 1933. July 1 is now one step ...

As a reporter and then longtime editor and publisher of The Call, Lucile Bluford became the dominant voice of Kansas City’s African-American community. File photo by Keith Myers [email protected] The ...

Lucile Bluford, who by her death in 2003 had worked at the Kansas City Call for about 70 years, was a tough reporter who commanded respect from everyone, said Rep. Gail McCann Beatty, who is pushing a ...

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Lucile Bluford, longtime publisher and editor of The Call of Kansas City, should be honored to a greater extent by the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. KEITH MYERS The Kansas City ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri is naming a new residence hall after a late journalist who was repeatedly denied admission to the school starting in the 1930s because she was Black.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - July 25, 1941. The Missouri Supreme Court hands down a decision that Lucile Bluford, a black student, be admitted to the graduate program at the University of Missouri. In ...

Growing up in Kansas City, Lucile Bluford was a great student and knew from a very young age she wanted to be a journalist. She couldn’t attend the University of Missouri journalism school because it ...

The MU Faculty Council voted Thursday to support a resolution urging the UM System Board of Curators to name MU’s newest residence hall after Lucile Bluford, a journalist denied admission for graduate ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up (Columbia Missourian) A new residence hall on MU’s campus will ...