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On the last day before the legislature takes a week off, the House also passed legislation creating nurseries in women’s prisons and a measure to prevent local officials from closing churches in a pandemic.

"The CROWN Act is a very necessary step in ensuring equity and addressing the silent but very real barrier of implicit bias,” says Kansas City Councilwoman Ryana Parks-Shaw.

How all-virtual school has been fairing for Kansas City Public Schools, the Kansas City Council unanimously passed the CROWN Act and the Kansas City Actors Theatre is pivoting to radio performances.

Kansas City would be one of only a few cities in the country to make hair discrimination illegal.

For more stories like this one, subscribe to A People's History of Kansas City on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher.It was 1956 in Kansas City. Leila…

A cosmetologist becomes obsessed with the Victorian tradition of hair art, and amasses the world's largest collection in Independence, Missouri. Each of…

Emily Brown runs a nonprofit in the Kansas City area. She is a black woman who wears her hair naturally. In 2016, she was invited to speak at a national…

Segment 1: Kansas lawmakers are debating a bill to end hair discrimination.The idea behind the CROWN Act is to ban employers and schools from expecting…

Segment 1: A new kind of Women's March in Kansas City aims to include more diverse voices.Since the first Women's March in 2017 after Trump's election,…

Segment 1: Hair and IdentityHow you wear your hair is part of your identity. We explore a growing movement to recognize that fact. Chavonna Adams, local…

Regulations on professional hair braiding in Missouri may soon be loosened under a bill passed by the legislature this session. In Missouri, a person…

Sometimes, a haircut isn’t just a haircut.When he was growing up in Kansas City, author Derrick Barnes felt like a new kid after visiting his barber.“Man,…