Brandon Calloway has heard more than three hundred pitches and helped move more than two million dollars into Black-owned ...

Why the most important election in America is the one nobody is watching. Missouri is where America rehearses. Before this country decided what a Black life was worth, it asked a St. Louis courtroom, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Leavenworth, Kansas, a for-profit prison company with a notorious record is quietly planning a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) concentration camp. CoreCivic – formerly Corrections ...

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 ...

For nearly two years, Urbavore’s pursued control over land in a historically Black neighborhood but their self-serving and manipulative tactics contribute to a larger conversation about race, power ...

How a fugitive and a porn-star-turned-fascist are exploiting legal loopholes to resurrect segregation—and why they think Missouri won’t stop them Left: Pete Csere (Leader of Neo-Nazi org), Middle: ...

A Move UP flyer from the four years Erica Green was known only as “Precious Doe.” The dogwood trees were blooming on my aunt’s block the week Kansas City lost a child it never learned to claim. I was ...