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.

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 ...

Watch the full conversation above, or on YouTube. In 1845, a fugitive from slavery named Frederick Douglass closed his narrative with a warning about the faith of the men who had owned him. “I assert ...

Racial Capitalism Broke My Family. The Church Basement Is Where I Put It Back Together. Black people are growing lonelier as we age, and capitalism is the reason. In the first essay of the Defender’s ...

Black people are growing lonelier as we age, and capitalism is the reason. In the first essay of the Defender’s Black Liberation Theology series, Minister Andrew Hairston, Baptist minister and ...

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, ...