She spent time on the CIA payroll and a lifetime near power. Gloria Steinem died wealthy, surrounded by family and friends, ...
Artificial intelligence needs more power than America will give it, so the industry went looking for ground where nobody gets a vote. In Parsons, Kansas, where one in five residents lives in poverty, ...
Brandon Calloway has heard more than three hundred pitches and helped move more than two million dollars into Black-owned businesses in Kansas City. Here, he opens the judges’ room and tells you ...
His hands did the work. Maurice Copeland was a tool and die supervisor at the Kansas City Plant for the last twelve of his thirty-two years there, and for most of that time he passed chemicals he did ...
While the World Watches is The Kansas City Defender’s ongoing investigation into what the 2026 World Cup is building in its host cities: the jails, the surveillance, and the displacement the spectacle ...
The Prospect MAX runs more reliably than most of the fleet, which is why so many people on the east side build their mornings around it. The woman heading to a hospital shift, the teenager riding to ...
Malcolm called it the ballot or the bullet. The empire answered with coups, and when the coups were done, it sent contracts. Defender Global Correspondent Jon Jeter has watched the sale for ...
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. On June 19th, the day our people first heard they ...
Less than a month after KCPD dismissed Black community warnings, a 22-year-old escaped a serial killer’s basement torture dungeon. The Fountain City Files x Defender’s new podcast follows that break ...
Kayla Rose Huff, 16, of Moberly, Missouri, was reported missing on May 6 and found dead on May 13 in the Rudolf Bennitt Conservation Area. (Photo courtesy of the Huff family via Pathway-Millard Family ...
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