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.

I was born and raised in Kansas City, so I was immediately struck by where the Legislature drew the new congressional district boundary. Troost Avenue, the same racial and economic line that has ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

They chain sick prisoners to benches for hours without treatment. They ignore pleas for help until it’s too late. They watch as people die. This investigation exposes how Centurion Health transforms ...

COLUMBIA, MO – Students at University of Missouri are demanding the expulsion of white student Meg Miller, after she posted a horrifically violent white supremacist threat, thinly veiled as a joke, ...