World Archives – The Kansas City Defender

500 Years, No Pay Raise: The War on African Wages and the Economy Fighting to Break Free

By Jon Jeter ● World ● April 2, 2026

They took the land, the labor, and the minerals. They left behind an economy where working 89 hours a week earns you $77 a month, and you still owe your boss a cut for hiring you. The Plunder Papers follow the money from a Nairobi father to the extraction machine the West built and never turned off.

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Rubio’s Global War on “Anti-American” Speech Has Its First Prisoners

By Ryan S. ● World ● April 1, 2026

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.

23 Organizations Launch Campaign to Stop KC’s World Cup Jail Before It Opens

By Ryan S. ● Kansas City ● March 31, 2026

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.

The Company That Built Guantanamo Bay Is Now Building Kansas City’s World Cup Jail. A Coalition of 23 Organizations Are Fighting Back

By Ryan S. ● Abolition ● March 27, 2026

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.

🚨 Kill the Imperialist Lies: The Truth on the U.S. War Against Iran

By Ryan S. ● Global Briefing ● March 23, 2026

Your government launched an illegal war, bombed 66 schools, killed 165 schoolgirls, and is asking you to pay $200 billion for it. Here is everything Western media won’t tell you.

Who the Terrorists Are: On the American-Israeli War in Iran

By Ryan S. ● World ● March 6, 2026

They killed 165 schoolgirls on a Saturday morning, bragged about obtaining “complete control of Iranian skies,” and plunged the planet into its most dangerous military crisis since 1945. A radical examination of American empire’s suicidal hubris, the intelligence operations that manufactured the pretext, and the media apparatus selling civilizational destruction as foreign policy.

‘Everything Must Go!’ Blacks on the Continent and in the Diaspora Experiencing a Crisis of Ownership

By Jon Jeter ● World ● March 2, 2026

From Kenya’s fire sale of Safaricom to skyrocketing utility bills in Black neighborhoods across America, privatization is reversing the gains of liberation movements worldwide. The second installment of Jon Jeter’s Plunder Papers.

A Brilliant Boy, a Garbage Dump, and the $415 Standing Between Him and Medical School

By Jon Jeter ● World ● February 2, 2026

This story marks the first installment in “The Plunder Papers,” an ongoing investigative series by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Jeter examining why Africans continue to live in grinding poverty seven decades after the alleged close of the colonial era.

TONIGHT: Kansas City Hosts Howard W. French and Baba Mickey Dean in Historic Conversation on Nkrumah, and the High Tide of Global Blackness

By Ryan S. ● World ● August 21, 2025

Legendary Black author Howard W. French joins National Black United Front KC’s Baba Mickey Dean for The Second Emancipation talk on Nkrumah and Pan-African power. Aug 21, Plaza Branch.

Malcolm X at 100: What His Prophetic Vision Demands of Us Today

By Dr. Linwood Tauheed ● Justice ● May 19, 2025

What would Malcolm X demand of us today? Dr. Linwood Tauheed traces a path through five stages of knowledge toward a radical conclusion: no one is coming to save us—we must transform ourselves and our communities. On the 100th anniversary of Malcolm’s birth, this piece calls us to embrace the full depth of his prophetic legacy—and act on it.