For years, Cynthia Newsome, who died Tuesday, invested in Awesome Ambitions, the Kansas City nonprofit she helped to found in 1997 to educate and inspire young Black and brown girls.
Thousands of girls throughout the Kansas City metro have gone through the program, which hosts events designed to push 8th-12th grade students in areas like college and career readiness, entrepreneurship, health and wellness and social justice.
“I saw a need and I wanted to do something myself, and make a difference,” she said in a video tribute posted Tuesday by KSHB 41, the TV station where she long worked as an anchor…