On June 19, the Defender and Decarcerate KC fill the field with Black vendors, good music, and family reunion energy, free and open to the whole city.

Organizers from nine host cities previewed an independent readiness scorecard this morning, one scored not by officials but by the people who have to live with the result.

Kayla Huff’s family and community searched for her for days when she went missing at the beginning of May. Her body was tragically found in central Missouri a week later. Now, five adults and a 17-year-old face accusations connected to her disappearance and death.

Three years ago, North Lawn tenants forced Wiser KC LLC into the most protective housing agreement in Missouri history. Then, the landlord broke it.

On the same day the Missouri Supreme Court hacked Black political representation into three pieces along the line of Kansas City’s racial apartheid, the Star aimed its opinion page bludgeon at the only Black candidate running against the man the map was drawn to protect.

For seventy-seven years, Kansas City has built most of nearly every American nuclear weapon. On May 7, the federal government will hold a hearing to ask if Kansas City consents to the next chapter.

This is what colonization looks like in the biotech century. In the latest dispatch of the Plunder Papers, Defender Africa Correspondent Jon Jeter investigates America’s push to extract the cells, pathogens, and medical records of millions of Africans. Countries that refuse are told their HIV patients will die.

Under Senate Bill 244, Kansas requires driver’s licenses to reflect sex assigned at birth and invalidates about 1,700 licenses previously updated to match gender identity. Advocates say the law directly targets transgender residents, forcing them to carry identification that contradicts who they are and raising concerns about discrimination, safety, and barriers to voting.