Laura Ziegler

Local resettlement agencies expect hundreds of refugees to arrive in the next few months. Engoma Fataki, once a refugee himself, is an interpreter who will help students from a dozen different countries when they attend the Global Academy at the International Welcome Center.

On Saturday at 7:30 a.m., a solemn ceremony will begin at the Overland Park Fire Department Training Center, the site of the area's largest 9/11 memorial, to mark the precise time 20 years ago when the planes went down and the twin towers fell.

The Kansas City, Kansas Community College has proposed a $70 million expansion for an educational center downtown aimed at addressing poverty and lack of jobs. But the plan requires tearing down the abandoned, but culturally significant, Seventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church.

A plan passed Thursday by the Kansas City Council requires utilities to do a better job fixing streets after underground work and mandates better coordination between the city and utilities.

The 400-pound, 7-foot-tall figure of an Osage Indian woman was stolen from the top of a limestone bluff sometime Tuesday night. When finished, the site will commemorate trade between the French and Native Americans.

For the past several years, an effort to establish a municipal ID in the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, has been stuck over a provision that would prohibit local law enforcement from coordinating with immigration authorities. Now it's become an issue in the race for mayor.

KC Tenants and other advocates for low-income renters said a federal extension of the eviction moratorium Thursday provides some relief, but ultimately doesn’t help those financially hurt by the pandemic, nor does it address long-standing gaps in affordable housing.

The country's racial reckoning is redefining expectations for young Black professionals. As part of "Under the Radar: Recognizing Black Excellence," one young couple shares their experience and insight with high school graduates in the Class of 2021.

Studies show Black women are among the most well educated demographic, and they say they're speaking out, wearing natural hair and wanting the same as their white colleagues, paving the road for the next generation.

They're corporate partners, judges and venture capitalists—Black professionals in Kansas City whose stories of success are not widely recognized.