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The challenge for people of color and women is finding an accessible entry point to training for jobs including electricians, bricklayers, and pipe fitters.

No companies will offer malpractice insurance to physician-independent birth centers in Kansas, taking options away from mothers, midwives say.

Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy opened in 2018 as the only single-gender charter school in Kansas City.

Black women die from pregnancy-related causes significantly more than other groups. Why? And what's being done about it?

After six years in Hollywood, the 2021 Etheria Film Festival marks its second year In North Kansas City's Screenland Armour Theatre.

The nonprofit United Women's Empowerment is leading the initiative, which will result in a series of policy recommendations for lawmakers.

Exclusion of affordable housing from President Biden's plan has the Missouri congressman unable to commit his support, one Kansas City nonprofit is improving health outcomes for Black LGBTQ residents, and a festival featuring only female directors calls North Kansas City home.

In the first four-day festival of its kind for Kansas City, thrift store owner Alesha Bowman doubles down on her mission to build up plus-size women.

Williams was an accomplished jazz pianist, arranger and composer whose musical abilities are displayed in the first of her major works.

Sarah Lloyd Green, a fierce women's rights activist, stood up for waitresses, Black and white laundry workers, women trolley conductors, soap manufacturers, and meat packers. Yet her story is not well known.

In the early 1900s, Sarah Lloyd Green was notorious for sticking it to the man as a feminist, suffragette and labor organizer in Kansas City. Her story isn't well known, but she was a champion for Black and white laundry workers and even started a waitress union.

Missouri's senior senator will not seek re-election in 2022 and baseball pioneer Effa Manley had some notable firsts in her career.