Echoes Of The City KC

08/22/2026

🎉🧁 WE HIT 10K!!! 🧁🎉

10,000 followers. 10,000 reasons to celebrate. 10,000 reminders that STORIES MATTER. ❤️

What started as a vision to amplify stories, preserve legacy, create space for healing, and strengthen community has grown into a community of 10,000 strong on TikTok! 🙌🏽

And we don’t take ONE follow, ONE share, ONE comment, ONE like, or ONE person who stopped long enough to hear a story for granted.

THANK YOU. 🥹❤️

Thank you for listening.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for believing in the stories we tell.
Thank you for helping us make sure voices that deserve to be heard… ARE HEARD.

We’re celebrating 10K, but trust us, we’re just getting started. 👀🔥

Here’s to the next story, the next voice, the next community, and the next 10K! 🥂🎉

10K STRONG!!! WE DID THAT, ECHOES FAMILY! 🙌🏽❤️

08/21/2026

✨ Three Things Thursday with G: Give Yourself Some Grace

We’re often quick to give patience, understanding, and compassion to everyone else—but what about ourselves?

This week, G reminds us that growth doesn’t require you to be cruel to yourself. 💛

1️⃣ Stop expecting perfection from yourself.
2️⃣ Learn from it without living in it.
3️⃣ Speak to yourself with the same grace you give to others.

Giving yourself grace doesn’t mean avoiding accountability. It means giving yourself room to grow while you’re doing it.

Don’t go through life on autopilot. Go through it on purpose. Every moment is writing your story—and it should be growing you.

🌱 We grow through what we go through.

08/20/2026

History Wednesdays with Professor Wilmore 📚✊🏾

Today, we’re taking a look at the history of African-centered education in Kansas City and the community that fought to make sure Black students could experience it beyond elementary school.

By the 1990s, African-centered education had already begun taking root, but one major question remained: What happens when these students reach middle and high school?

A task force was formed to advocate for the expansion of the program and create a true educational pipeline for students.

That advocacy paid off.

In 1998, King and Southeast were approved as pipeline schools, helping establish a K–12 African-centered education program in Kansas City.

And behind that progress were parents, educators, families, and community advocates who refused to stop pushing, including Ms. Irvin, Ms. Webster, the Bullard family, and many others who fought to make the vision a reality.

This is a reminder that some of the programs we see in our communities today exist because somebody organized, advocated, and fought to create something better for the generations coming behind them.

Thank you for tuning in to History Wednesdays with Professor Wilmore on Echoes of the City, where we continue to preserve and amplify the people, places, and stories that shaped Kansas City.

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🎥 Videography: Jordan Stephens
🎬 Echoes of the City Studios

08/18/2026

Yesterday was National Nonprofit Day, and we couldn’t let the moment pass without reflecting on what this journey means to us. 🖤💛

As Echoes of the City KC celebrates our first year as a nonprofit, we’re reminded that this work has always been bigger than us.

It’s about capturing stories, preserving history, promoting healing, connecting our community to resources, and amplifying voices that deserve to be heard.

In just one year, we’ve shared powerful Kansas City stories, created conversations around mental health and holistic well-being, celebrated our history, built meaningful community partnerships, and begun expanding our storytelling beyond Kansas City and onto a global stage.

To every person who has watched, shared, donated, partnered, volunteered, trusted us with their story, or simply believed in the vision — thank you.

We celebrate how far we’ve come, the community that makes this work possible, and all that is still ahead.

One year down. A lifetime of stories to tell. 🖤💛

08/18/2026

08/18/2026

🎙️ Monday Mental Health Moment | THERAPIST SPOTLIGHT

Meet Tyneshia Pryor, LCSW/LSCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and founder of Blossom Beyond Counseling. 💜

Tyneshia provides virtual therapy exclusively for adults, specializing in depression, anxiety, stress, self-esteem, relationship concerns, and life transitions.

Knowing that life doesn’t always fit into a 9-to-5 schedule, she offers evening and weekend appointments to help make prioritizing your mental health more convenient.

Her goal is to create a compassionate, non-judgmental space where clients feel heard, supported, and empowered to heal and grow.

And a little fun fact: 🧡 Tyneshia’s favorite color is orange because, to her, it represents hope, warmth, and new beginnings—a beautiful reflection of the work she does.

📞 (913) 424-9038
🌐 BlossomBeyondKC.com

Through Healing Voices KC, Echoes of the City KC is connecting our community with mental health professionals and resources—because sometimes taking the first step starts with simply knowing who’s available to help.

“Remember, therapy is for everyone.” 💜

08/15/2026

ONE YEAR. ONE MISSION. A GROWING IMPACT. 🖤✨

Today, Echoes of the City KC celebrates one year as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

In just one year, we’ve preserved stories, created spaces for healing, celebrated legacy, connected community, invested in holistic well-being, and watched a vision grow far beyond what we could have imagined.

From Black Wealth Week KC and the Roots & Rise documentary series to our weekly storytelling, mental well-being programming, community partnerships, and Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Crown, every step has reminded us of one thing: impact happens when community comes together.

This first year was built by our storytellers, participants, volunteers, partners, sponsors, funders, supporters—and every person who believed these stories deserved to be told.

Year One built the foundation. And we’re just getting started.

Thank you for being part of our story. 🖤💛

Echoes of the City KC
Amplifying Stories. Building Holistic Well-Being. Strengthening Community.

08/15/2026

We are 55 followers away from hitting our goal! Please follow us on TikTok if you haven't ❤️!

https://www.tiktok.com/?_r=1&_t=ZP-98nV2kR7SKV

WE’RE ALMOST AT 10K! 🎉❤️

Facebook family, we need y’all’s help!

Echoes Of The City KC is currently at 9,914 followers on TikTok, which means we are only 86 followers away from 10,000! 🥹

And I would LOVE for us to hit 10K by our one-year anniversary of becoming an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit. 🙌🏾

This past year has been incredible. Through storytelling, mental health conversations, Kansas City history, holistic well-being, and amplifying the voices of people in our community, we’ve watched Echoes continue to grow beyond what we imagined.

So if you’re my friend here on Facebook and you haven’t followed us on TikTok yet, will you help us get to 10K?

It literally takes a few seconds. ❤️

👉🏾 Follow Echoes of the City KC on TikTok⁠

https://www.tiktok.com/?_r=1&_t=ZP-98nV2kR7SKV

And if you already follow us, share this post and invite somebody else to follow!

86 MORE TO GO! 🎯

Let’s hit 10,000 followers together and celebrate one year of Echoes of the City KC as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit! 🖤✨

08/14/2026

Echoes Of The City KC had over 3,500 reactions on our posts last week! Thanks everyone for your support! 🎉

08/14/2026

Big change rarely happens overnight.

But small choices…
repeated consistently…

can completely change your life.

Keep showing up.