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The intersection, 51st Street and Troost Avenue, where the accident occurred.

UMKC student killed at 51st Street and Troost Avenue on Thursday

Aurora Wilson and Jazlyn Summers
September 27, 2024

  Yuxi Wu, a Conservatory pianist student, was killed on Thursday while riding her scooter across Troost Avenue and 51st Street.    The master's student was struck by a speeding red Ford Focus heading north around noon while crossing a crosswalk. Wu was pronounced dead...

Scenes from Art on the Block - A Black Lives Matter Project

Scenes from Art on the Block – A Black Lives Matter Project

Gabrial Nell
September 7, 2020

Part of the design for the Black Lives Matter street mural at 18th and Vine included incorporating piano keys into the letters. Here a volunteer prepares their brush to work on the piano keys in the letter ‘E’ of the mural. Volunteers performed painted a significant...

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