In an exclusive interview, Mañuela Enama, a visionary modeling founder from Kansas City, shares her inspiring story of founding Autre Management. Explore how she's pushing the fashion landscape and forging a new path of representation in the modeling world.
On March 1st, 2024, {B/qKC}, a new Black queer community archive, opened in Kansas City with a launch party, exhibit preview and powerful message on reparations.
This week marks for the final week to immerse yourself into Miss/They Camaraderie 2024–featuring installations from KC's first Black queer archive, {B/qKC}.
Tyler Perry halts a massive studio expansion, spotlighting the harmful, labor-displacing potential of AI technology like OpenAI's Sora. In a an unexpected move, Perry, a mega-capitalist, urges the entertainment industry to brace for a future where AI’s allure clashes with human livelihood.
Join Kansas City's Buy Black Expo on Feb 10, 2024, at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center for a landmark event that champions reparations and Black-owned businesses, delicious Black cuisine, and featuring Reparations trailblazer Robin Rue Simmons.
Fresh off of their inauguration as Kansas City's Poet Laureate, Melissa-Ferrer Civil answers 10 questions from The Defender about art as community-building and survivalhood.
This week, Kansas City is hosting AWP 2024 Conference & Bookfair -the United States’ largest writer’s conference. We made a guide exclusively for Black attendees.
Celebrate the launch of {B/qKC} through food, drink, party & a preview of its city-wide exhibits launching in April.
Volume 2 of our Black queer digital archive, {B/qKC}, rediscovers Soakie's: a former Black gay bar in Kansas City from 1994-2004.
“You Got Me Vol. 2” presented a lineup of primarily Black, Brown, and Queer music artists to celebrate the impact Badu and Scott have made on local Kansas City artists (and beyond).
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