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.

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 ...

Artificial intelligence needs more power than America will give it, so the industry went looking for ground where nobody gets a vote. In Parsons, Kansas, where one in five residents lives in poverty, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is the first release of Power Grab: A Kansas City Defender investigative series on data centers and the communities paying the price for the AI boom. The piece includes reporting ...

Malcolm called it the ballot or the bullet. The empire answered with coups, and when the coups were done, it sent contracts. Defender Global Correspondent Jon Jeter has watched the sale for ...

Cody Boston is a Kansas City based documentary filmmaker and freelance multimedia journalist. Formerly a Director/Producer/Editor at Kansas City PBS, Cody now offers video and photo production ...

In Leavenworth, Kansas, a for-profit prison company with a notorious record is quietly planning a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) concentration camp. CoreCivic – formerly Corrections ...