In the latest updates from the horrific ongoing investigation into Timothy Haslett Jr., The Defender has uncovered disturbing social media posts made by the kidnapper and sexual predator. In the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
COLUMBIA, MO – Students at University of Missouri are demanding the expulsion of white student Meg Miller, after she posted a horrifically violent white supremacist threat, thinly veiled as a joke, ...
Left: Independence police storm apartment building with handguns & rifles, Right: Mitchell, Maria & Baby Destiny smile in a photo **UPDATE** Independence Police Department has released edited, body ...
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 ...
Klamm Park tournament night in Kansas City, Kansas. Players gather together for a group shot. Photo: Vaughan W Harrison/The Kansas City Defender Klamm Park, KCK, tournament night. The courts hum like ...
Amidst the scandal at Summit Christian Academy, the President’s response — minimizing hate speech — casts doubts on his leadership and the school’s commitment to combatting racial violence. Chris Hahn ...
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, ...