Stephen Jenkins, a 7th grader at Robinson Middle School, has had to deal with hurtful things because of his skin tone.

"People just don't like people because they're a different color," he said.

That's why Jenkins is playing "Skip Racism" hopscotch in his school cafeteria today.

"The game today was something the kids came up with...the idea was to have negative words relating to racism it laid out on a grid and have kids skip them," said Janet McAdams, a counselor at the school.

Every year, students at the middle school choose one issue to highlight for an entire week. Last year's cause was for the Helping Hands Humane Society in which students helped write a $1,000 check to the non-profit organization. This year, Jenkins came up with the idea of fighting racism, after being inspired by the film, "Roots," which chronicles a characters' family saga during slavery.

"I think this will change people point of view on how we're all the same inside," said Jenkins.

Events, like the "Skip Racism" hopscotch game, are offered to students all week. The culminating event will be a peaceful rally held Friday at the historic Brown vs. Board of Education site.

"Maybe we can get national attention and end racism like how there's drug awareness week, maybe we can get racism awareness week," said Leo Espinoza, who's an 8th grader at the school.

While the students at this school are doing their part to fight racism, nearby, the Governor's Task Force is meeting to tackle the issue of racial profiling in Kansas.

"The Government Task Force has sole purpose to prevent racial profiling... to bring community leaders and law enforcement together to resolve this issue together," said Danielle Dempsey-Swopes, Executive Director of the Kansas African-American Affairs Commission.

Today, the task force hosted an all-day lecture series to discuss bias in policing.

"We have people who have been really committed about this issue and as times change our community changes and the demographics change in Kansas, we have to do more to address this issue," Dempsey-Swopes said.