Is white Christianity the Antichrist? Dr. J. Kameron Carter traces how the church helped invent race and why Black religion is anarchic, on Liberation Now.
"Trying to find a Black kid at night, that's always fun," one of the two officers on the recording can be heard saying on body camera in the minutes before Lafayette County Deputy Kenneth Lewie shot nineteen-year-old Saveion McConnell to death on the shoulder of U.S. 50. The Kansas City Defender has obtained the footage, and the prosecutor's memo that cleared Lewie. Neither says what the state has been telling the public.
A delivery to a Black women-founded brokerage in the West Plaza took a violent turn when the driver, frustrated that no one answered within seconds, was recorded using a racial slur at the front door. The company's founder says she wants answers from FedEx.
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.
A video leaked to The Defender from Olathe West High School in Kansas shows two students fighting after a white student repeatedly used the N Word.
The KC Black Arts Project sits down with Michael Artis, a local Black portraiture artist.
White People Are Gentrifying 18th & Vine: This Black Business Owner is Suing in a Landmark Case
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