Black Lives Matter

Days after the Jackson County Prosecutor announced she will not bring charges against a Kansas City police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Black man in March 2020, protestors took to the streets.

After the events of last summer’s protests and the ongoing pandemic, Streetcar Authority officials say they "couldn’t take a break” from holding this year’s Black History Month Celebration.

Leaders of Kansas City's social justice movement assess the value of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s strategies in their work today.

What today's young activists think of Dr. King's methods for advancing social justice, and the circumstances holding back Kansas City's Black entrepreneurs.

Through the decades, children’s book author and illustrator Shane Evans and stage, film and television actor Taye Diggs have stayed fast friends and collaborators.

After Chief Rick Smith made his report to the Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday, City Councilmember Eric Bunch called for the chief’s resignation or firing. “Enough is enough,” Bunch wrote on Twitter.

Kansas City council members learned that Brian Platt was going to be recommended for the city manager's job after a Jersey City publication leaked the news. Since then, there have been allegations of racial discrimination and an expedited start date.

Despite last minute changes to accommodate coronavirus concerns, organizers hope the holiday cheer brings the community together and boosts morale and business.

Protest groups and social activists in Kansas City are facing a suite of challenges as public attention shifts away from issues of police and criminal justice reform, which mobilized so many during 2020.

Police brutality and protests garnered the attention and sympathy of white Kansas Citians, but 2020 has not brought the systemic change activists say are needed to improve race relations in the metro.

With police departments under scrutiny for their relationship with Black Americans, Kansas City, Missouri's police force has a dismal diversity record, especially in its investigative units.

Plans for a plaque that would contextualize the deeds of former President Andrew Jackson were put on hold for months. But after voters failed to pass a measure to remove them, plans are back on to add the plaques.