This article is the first release of Power Grab: A Kansas City Defender investigative series on data centers and the communities paying the price for the AI boom. The piece includes reporting ...
Around 3 a.m. Wednesday the hail came, and it filled the whole dark, no space between one strike and the next, a single unbroken roar on the roof above me and the windows. I live on the second floor ...
Brandon Calloway has heard more than three hundred pitches and helped move more than two million dollars into Black-owned ...
White men are outraged that a course dedicated to studying “Angry White Men” is being taught at the University of Kansas this semester. From white male Kansas Congressman Ron Estes, to the also white ...
The Defender’s inaugural Freedom School cohort brings together multiple generations of Black radicals, equipping them with organizing skills, Black radical history, and the tools to resist oppression.
As the clock ticks toward the scheduled execution of Black faith leader Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, advocates from across the nation rally outside the Missouri Supreme Court, fighting to stop the ...
The hot water has been out for two weeks. Pests live in the walls. The exterior doors don’t lock. In some apartments the heat has not worked in years. And in some buildings, raw sewage backs up into ...
SHAWNEE MISSION, KS – In a shocking hate crime at Shawnee Mission East High School, a Black girl and student was viciously attacked by a white male student. The assault left her hospitalized with a ...
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 ...
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.
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