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 ...
KANSAS CITY, MO — As the struggle for safe, affordable housing rages on, residents at Quality Hill Towers find themselves at the tipping point. The capitalist indifference of Sentinel, their landlord, ...
“I pray I am a fool so as not to be exposed as a coward,” wrote James Gillcrist in an extraordinary open letter to the Rockhurst High School community. A theology and philosophy teacher, veteran, anti ...
How St. Louis police are using AI facial recognition technology to extend America’s legacy of anti-Black surveillance and control. Left: White cctv camera points under clear blue sky. Right: Photo of ...
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 ...
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 University of Missouri was founded in 1839 on land owned by James S. Rollins, a slaveholder. The seed money came from at least 384 slave owners. Rollins Street still runs through the center of ...
As Kansas City’s most powerful unelected official, Brian Platt has built his career on lies, retaliation, corruption, targeting Black employees, women, and whistleblowers who dared to challenge him.
At the Urban Summit’s youth vote panel, six candidates for one of Kansas City’s most powerful political offices came to be heard, in a heated session that more than once turned to open insult. The ...
When I think of Black love, I think of beauty. Beautiful Black bodies lost in the moonlight of their skin. I think of my parents. I think of my grandma’s and grandpa’s old restaurant on 12th Street, ...
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