• DONATE
  • Local Government
  • State Government
  • Education
  • DIY Democracy
  • Health Care
  • Housing
  • Labor
  • Lea en Español
  • About Us
    • Board of Directors
    • Community Advisory Board
  • Our Team
  • Community Engagement Bureau
  • Send a Story Tip
  • Newsletter Sign up
  • Listen to the News
  • Support
    • Donate
    • Partnerships
    • Sponsorships
    • Our Supporters
    • Tax Documents
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
Skip to content
The Beacon

The Beacon

In Depth. Independent. In Kansas City.

Donate
Posted inCivic Engagement

The Beacon launches free texting campaign around social justice and racial equity

Text messaging is a new way for The Beacon to open up a dialogue with readers.
by Jennifer Hack Wolf June 25, 2020August 7, 2022

Share this:

 

 

Text messaging is a new way for The Beacon to open up a dialogue with readers.

 

Today, we’re announcing a new program to deepen our commitment to social justice and racial equity coverage. Race Forward KC is a free engagement series done completely over text messaging. The channel allows for a back and forth — we’ll share local news and updates and we hope you’ll send news tips, questions for our reporters and ideas on how we can all take action to improve our communities. Sign up now. 

As we pilot this initiative, you can expect to receive two or three text messages a week from us for the next three months. We will never spam you. If the community finds Race Forward KC helpful, we’ll ask Beacon donors to sustain the program.  

The text service is an important step in bridging the digital divide in Kansas and Missouri.  Through texting, we can deliver the news to more of the community, including those without access to secure, reliable internet.

You can support us in this mission by signing up and telling a friend about Race Forward KC. If you have suggestions for how the community can benefit from text messaging around race, racism and racial justice issues, please let us know.

Recent Posts

  • ‘We all are like one giant family’: Parents of trans children fight bans on gender-affirming care March 30, 2023
  • Who will represent the Northland in Kansas City Council’s 1st District at-large seat? March 28, 2023
  • One month into the new airport terminal, KC has questions March 27, 2023

Jennifer Hack Wolf

jennifer@thebeacon.media
  • twitter

Jennifer is the audience director for The Beacon, overseeing audience research, membership, development and early engagement strategies, including launch events and collaboration with other local and regional... More by Jennifer Hack Wolf

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.

Close window X

Republish this article

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

  1. Give us credit, ideally in this format: “By Jane Reporter, The Kansas City Beacon.”
  2. If you publish online, include the hyperlinks in the story, and a link to the original article’s URL on our website.
  3. It’s fine to change the story to suit your in-house style (for example, using “Lawrence, Kan.” instead of “Lawrence.”)
  4. If you make changes that are more significant than style tweaks — such as adding a comment from a local official — you need to include a note like this: “Additional reporting by Joe Reporter.”
  5. You can publish our photos and graphics only with the stories with which they originally appeared. For any other uses, seek permission.
  6. Include the following at the end of the story: This story was originally published by The Kansas City Beacon, an online news outlet focused on local, in-depth journalism in the public interest.
  7. If you share the story on social media, please mention @kcbeacon (Twitter), @kcbeacon (Facebook) and @kcbeacon (Instagram).
  8. Don’t sell the story.
  9. Don’t sell ads against the story or place the story behind a paywall. Feel free, however, to publish it on a page surrounded by ads you’ve already sold.

The Beacon launches free texting campaign around social justice and racial equity

by Jennifer Hack Wolf, The Beacon
June 25, 2020

1
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

300 E. 39th St., Kansas City, MO 64111

Phone: 816-514-6071

Email: hello@thebeacon.media

 

Our stories are free to republish in accordance with these guidelines.

  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • THE BEACON MEDIA
  • TEAM
  • STEAL OUR STORIES
  • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
  • COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BUREAU
  • JOBS
  • SUPPORT THE BEACON
  • OUR SUPPORTERS
  • PRESS
  • CORRECTIONS
  • PRIVACY POLICY
© 2023 Beacon Media Inc. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic