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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kansas City, get ready. Black Feast Week is back, and it kicks off this Wednesday, October 7, the same way it opened in 2024 and again in 2025: with The People’s Buyout. At 6pm at Daiquiri District, ...

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 ...

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 ...