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Like everything else, winter holidays won't look like normal in 2020. Area faith groups face their challenges head on.

In the year since Jessica Lauser moved to Kansas City, she's helped the 39th-seeded U.S. chess team for people with disabilities climb to 10th place — but she's also experienced homelessness.

New York artist Ted Riederer uses his label Never Records to archive what's happening in various moments in history. He'll release "Apocalypse Anthems" on Feb. 14.

A survey from the National Academy of Sciences suggests most Americans now believe in at least one conspiracy theory. A Missouri researcher says the key to bringing those believers back into mainstream society is leading with empathy.

Since 1956, Leila Cohoon has collected and preserved hair art and jewelry — not art or jewelry that goes in a person's hair, but art and jewelry made of the hair itself. "Her interest in these objects helped actually literally save them from being destroyed," one historian says.

Brian Turner was packed and ready to ship out for Iraq when his grandfather finally broke a decades’ long silence about his own combat experience. When…

From producing at-home art tutorials to sewing thousands of masks, Kansas City artists have pivoted in unexpected ways to stay creative throughout the pandemic.

Gay rights activism at the University of Kansas was led in the 1970s by the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front, but it took 10 years and a lawsuit for the student group to gain official recognition. Now, Katherine Rose-Mockry, retired director of KU’s Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity, has pieced that history together.

Chelan David's “Beautiful States of Mind: A Father and Daughters’ Pilgrimage to all 50 States” is both a travel guide and a memoir of David's bonding experiences with his girls. Looming in the pages is David's childhood kidnapping by his own father.

Kanbe's Markets began three years ago as a way to give people access to fresh produce in food deserts. Today, Kanbe's is a hub, attracting other organizations that want to team up to feed the hungry.