The Kansas City Defender Archives

Kansas City: Inside America’s Nuclear Weapons Capital, As It Builds the Newest American Bomb

Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Parts Honeywell Campus | Photo via National Security Campus & Dept. of Energy His hands did the work. Maurice Copeland was a tool and die supervisor […]

The headlines called her ‘Precious Doe.’ Her name was Erica Green.

Public risk, private wealth, and the Kansas City Royals’ Crown Center deal

The People’s Free Store: KC Defender distributes hundreds of free clothing & hygiene items to Black people

91 years, 19 Grammys: The world’s greatest Black orchestra comes home to Kansas City

23 organizations launch campaign to stop KC’s World Cup jail before it opens

Local KC leaders gleefully celebrate $317M investment in caging Black and Brown people, note facility ‘designed for future expansion’

Missouri’s Apartheid Redistricting: Supreme Court Upholds Trump-Ordered Racist Voter Scheme to Kill Black Kansas City’s Vote.

🚨 Kill the Imperialist Lies: The Truth on the U.S. War Against Iran

Journalism for Us, by Us: The Defender’s call to Kansas City’s Black community