Quindaro Boulevard

United Nations of Islam ruled Quindaro Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas, for two decades. The group’s leaders are about to go on trial.

The Heritage Trail project began with a 2008 master plan for Kansas City, Kansas, that envisioned a green city with neighborhoods whose residents are healthy and fit, infrastructure that ensures clean air and water, and a community that embraces its diverse culture and history.

Lucky Easterwood has been painting murals in Kansas City, Kansas, since 1996. Each of his paintings are intended as a message of optimism for this specific community: "If it was quick to die, it can be quick to rebuild."

Ruth Scover, proprietor of Ms. R’s Soul Food Café on Quindaro Blvd., died in early September. As her family plans for the future, they say they will honor their mother’s legacy by keeping fried chicken, peach cobbler and other soul food favorites — as well as a role in the community — on the menu.

Boston Daniels was chief of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department for only one year.But he is remembered not only as the city’s first black police…

Growing up in Northeast Kansas City, Kansas, LaNya Meade, 14, remembers her mom saying she didn’t want LaNya to get stuck here.“And so I always thought…

The community around Quindaro Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas, is mostly black.But Our Lady And St. Rose Catholic Church, at 5th and Quindaro, attracts a…

A journey along Quindaro Boulevard in northeast Kansas City, Kansas, takes us through history, demographic shifts, religion, and plans for economic…

On the northeast corner of 5th and Quindaro Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas, sits a vacant and weathered building where 45 years ago, a black-owned…

Bernard Crawford grew up on Quindaro during the 1970s. He remembers thriving businesses: bakeries, grocery stores and theaters. He left for school but has…