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.
How 11 council members advanced the framework to commit $600 million in taxpayer money as collateral for a billionaire's stadium.
One of the greatest Black orchestras in American history returns to the city that birthed it Thursday night, on the eve of International Jazz Day. KC's own Lonnie McFadden, Deborah Brown, and Charlton Johnson take the stage with them. The kind of show people will tell their grandchildren they were at.
Still workshopping its position on chattel slavery, the NPR affiliate invites you into the conversation.
The Kansas City Defender launches Liberation Now, our first-ever video series, debuting with an interview so explosive it names AIPAC, Hakeem Jeffries, the Kansas City mayor, and the entire war machine in a single conversation. Missouri democratic socialist Hartzell Gray holds nothing back. Neither do we.
On Monday night, students packed every seat in the Schlundt Hall auditorium and lined the walls. More than a thousand watched on a livestream. They’ve toppled a Mizzou president before. They can do it again.
A cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio directs every U.S. embassy worldwide to suppress "anti-American propaganda" using Pentagon psyops units and recruited local influencers. Weeks earlier, the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria had already directed the country's secret police, the DSS, to arrest two citizens over tweets critical of israel & the U.S.
Kansas City wants to welcome the world. It's building a cage to do it. But a rapidly growing movement says the fight is far from over.
Officials celebrate 'justice with dignity' vision for building specifically designed to strip people of both
The contractor building Kansas City's World Cup jail has been sued for human trafficking, found liable for poisoning over 100,000 people, and built the detention camp where the U.S. tortured prisoners for two decades. Decarcerate KC and 24 partner organizations are launching a campaign to fight it.
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