Urban League of Greater KC

Several labor and community groups, including Kansas City Public Schools, are demanding more concessions from The Kansas City Royals before they support a 3/8-cent sales tax renewal that would help fund a new ballpark. Building trades unions endorsed the project after securing promises.

A city council ordinance currently in committee would establish a commission to look into slavery reparations for Black Kansas Citians.

Under Missouri law, Kansas City must spend 25% of its general fund on the police department. Members of the Board of Police Commissioners say the city is leaving out developer subsidies and other budget items to spend less on cops.

Community activists gathered Wednesday to call for local control of the KCPD and for the Board of Police Commissioners to respond to a new Kansas City Star investigation into racism and discrimination within the department.

At a virtual forum Saturday, social justice leaders and community members discussed the hiring process and brainstormed the qualities they want to see in the next chief.

Expect the 14th annual Urban Summit of Kansas City to focus on the racial wealth gap and produce a strategy defining its advocacy agenda for 2022.

Gwen Grant's lawsuit says the board violated the rights of taxpayers under the Hancock Amendment, the citizens’ initiative that limits state revenues and local taxes.

The U.S. Justice Department has resumed "pattern-or-practice" investigations under the Biden administration. Kansas City activists hope such a probe could bring reforms to Kansas City Police.

Citing a high rate of violence against people of color, four major Kansas City groups call on Attorney General Merrick Garland to scrutinize the city's police department.

What is behind a coalition of Kansas City civil rights leaders asking the Department of Justice to investigate the city's police department, two municipalities that have considered banning conversion therapy, and the work of preserving the Kansas River.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker wrote a letter of support, saying police have “no accountability to our community.”

A Jackson County judge on Monday denied two challenges to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners' lawsuit that seeks to undo the mayor's reform plan, which remains on hold.