Health Forward's McClain Bryant Macklin on the new map's line along Troost Avenue, what Prop A does, and how to vote by Nov. 3.

Keyon Monté brings his New York-premiered play Second Born, starring Dominique Thorne and Mister Fitzgerald, to Kansas City.

While the World Watches is The Kansas City Defender’s ongoing investigation into what the 2026 World Cup is building in its host cities: the jails, the surveillance, and the displacement the spectacle ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, October 12, 2026—Waving flags, tooting plastic horns, and obstructing traffic underneath a busy highway overpass, scores of cheering protesters assembled outside the main office of the ...

Kayla Rose Huff, 16, of Moberly, Missouri, was reported missing on May 6 and found dead on May 13 in the Rudolf Bennitt Conservation Area. (Photo courtesy of the Huff family via Pathway-Millard Family ...

Every day, one word from the Black radical tradition. Read the clue, guess the word in six tries, then read the history behind it. Liberated Word is a free daily word puzzle from The Kansas City ...

Kansas City’s congressman is running inside a district whose shape is still being fought over in court. On candidates we publish records, votes, donors, dollars, and dates, and nothing else. No ...

In 1951, Black civil rights leaders asked the United Nations to recognize racial violence in America as genocide. The UN’s rejection of their petition 75 years ago exposed the institution’s racial ...

We’re thrilled to welcome Tiffany Watts as our first-ever full-time reporter. In her inaugural piece as Lead Reporter for Black Economic Justice, Food & Culture, Tiffany investigates the forces ...

Left: Independence police storm apartment building with handguns & rifles, Right: Mitchell, Maria & Baby Destiny smile in a photo **UPDATE** Independence Police Department has released edited, body ...

There is a building on Troost Avenue that holds centuries. Perhaps not in the way that museums hold centuries, behind glass, temperature-controlled, accessible by appointment-only. This building holds ...

His hands did the work. Maurice Copeland was a tool and die supervisor at the Kansas City Plant for the last twelve of his thirty-two years there, and for most of that time he passed chemicals he did ...