Black History

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

Tamika Mallory's 'State of Emergency' highlights that while progress has been made in the fight against racial injustice, we still have a long way to go.

Black activist Tamika Mallory on her blueprint for social justice and how one medical school is getting creative in its curriculum.

The house that once belonged to the legendary pitcher has sat empty for more than two decades. Now Kansas City seeks proposals to revive it as a community asset.

Williams was an accomplished jazz pianist, arranger and composer whose musical abilities are displayed in the first of her major works.

The Paycheck Protection Program was meant for underserved communities, but in Kansas City its allocation mirrored the city's history of redlining, and the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra performs a new arrangement of Mary Lou Williams' 'Zodiac Suite'.

Levi Harrington, a Black man, was hung from a Kansas City bridge in 1882 for a crime he did not commit.

Missouri's senior senator on the work ahead in his final months in Congress and two memorials to Levi Harrington who was killed by a Kansas City mob in 1882.

Kansas City is no longer one of the only large cities in the country without a roadway named after Martin Luther King Jr.

Memorial services for Sykes were held Thursday morning at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church. Colleagues, friends and family spoke from the pulpit, virtually and via Facebook Live remembering Sykes' many accomplishments.

Missouri's senior senator will not seek re-election in 2022 and baseball pioneer Effa Manley had some notable firsts in her career.

Effa Manley's achievements as the first woman to own a professional baseball team led to her becoming the first woman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.