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One of Kansas City's most traveled streets — Troost Avenue — is named after a slaveholder from the 1800s. A small business owner with a storefront along the street wants to change that.
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As small businesses and nonprofits increasingly occupy Troost Avenue in Kansas City, one entrepreneur is petitioning to change the street's name.
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The makeup, formulated for a variety of skin tones, is now being sold in 41 Target stores
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For the second year in a row, Asian Americans across the Kansas City metro will ring in the Lunar New Year during a pandemic. Some events will be in person, others virtual.
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Three new brewery owners are undaunted by the pandemic as they move to join Kansas City's beer scene.
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Three Kansas City startup owners describe their products and why they chose to start their businesses in the midst of the pandemic.
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Fulk Farms has been owned by the same family since 1889, and has sold Christmas trees since the early 1990s. In the last two years, this farm and others in the region have faced new holiday challenges.
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Calvin Arsenia, a Kansas City-based singer, harpist and composer, has a new book about coming to terms with his evangelical Christian upbringing and being queer. Plus, Willa Robinson went from selling books on the street to operating Kansas City’s largest collection of vintage African American books.
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To survive the pandemic, indie booksellers in Kansas and Missouri have found success by directly competing with Amazon for online orders. Plus, a new show at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art features the work of nine Kansas City women.
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An Omaha developer purchased an office building that serves as an incubator for Black-owned businesses, but no one has told those business owners what to expect.
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As Latino communities across the country continue to grow, more football fans are tuning in to Spanish-language broadcasts of the Chiefs and other NFL franchises.
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Despite the economic pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic and decades of discriminatory disadvantage, Black businesses owners in Kansas City are staying resilient.