The first underground nuclear reactor in history is being drilled through the drinking water of Parsons, Kansas, to power AI ...
Brandon Calloway has heard more than three hundred pitches and helped move more than two million dollars into Black-owned ...
Brandon Calloway has heard more than three hundred pitches and helped move more than two million dollars into Black-owned businesses in Kansas City. Here, he opens the judges’ room and tells you ...
His hands did the work. Maurice Copeland was a tool and die supervisor at the Kansas City Plant for the last twelve of his thirty-two years there, and for most of that time he passed chemicals he did ...
This article is the first release of Power Grab: A Kansas City Defender investigative series on data centers and the communities paying the price for the AI boom. The piece includes reporting ...
While the World Watches is The Kansas City Defender’s ongoing investigation into what the 2026 World Cup is building in its host cities: the jails, the surveillance, and the displacement the spectacle ...
The Prospect MAX runs more reliably than most of the fleet, which is why so many people on the east side build their mornings around it. The woman heading to a hospital shift, the teenager riding to ...
Malcolm called it the ballot or the bullet. The empire answered with coups, and when the coups were done, it sent contracts. Defender Global Correspondent Jon Jeter has watched the sale for ...
Under the sweltering midday sun in late July, more than 100 faith leaders and community members marched from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park to Brush Creek and Troost, not in celebration, but in ...
On June 19, the Defender and Decarcerate KC fill the field with Black vendors, good music, and family reunion energy, free and open to the whole city. On June 19th, the day our people first heard they ...
KANSAS CITY, MO – Community members and family of Aybriana Johnson, 31 years old, are asking the community for any tips and information on her whereabouts. She was last seen on April 6th while walking ...