Race and Culture

In a new podcast, Glenn North and the museum join in "an overall effort to confront the past and chart a course for the future"

More suburban school districts are talking about diversity and inclusion, but their Black students say they continue to face racism and discrimination.

Few foods have such devoted followings as tamales, especially among Latinos. For families all around Kansas City, making them is a chance to embrace their culture and pass down a tradition.

Critics say public schools are echoing liberal talking points in ways that breed white guilt and accelerate racial conflict.

After 43 years in prison, Kevin Strickland has finally been freed as a Missouri judge overturned his conviction. Strickland's case was among the longest wrongful imprisonments in the country. Plus, some Missouri homeowners are get rid of racial covenants that banned nonwhite people from buying houses.

Kansas City remains one of the only U.S. cities without authority over its own police department, but civil rights groups are demanding that to be changed. Plus, tens of thousands of properties in St. Louis still have racially restrictive covenants, even though they’ve been outlawed for decades.

Martin, a race and culture reporter at KCUR, will be one of six journalists to take part in the first-ever coaching cohort at the Reynolds Journalism Institute.

Darryl Chamberlain has a vision for improving Kansas City’s urban core that has led to national acclaim — and kept him on the lookout for second-hand instruments since 2007.

White families have a tendency to avoid tough racial conversations by teaching colorblindness or by failing to intervene when witnessing racist behavior—habits that reinforce racism in American culture.

To honor missing and murdered Indigenous people, a group of Native American advocates is making a months-long trip across the country on foot and by bike.

Hate crimes reported in Kansas and Missouri during 2020 increased significantly, but unreliable data collection and severe underreporting mean the real figures are likely even higher.

To a degree, we all alter our speech and behavior to fit in. But people of color have to make the change more often than not.