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Tim Fielder is among the artists placing new emphasis on Afrofuturism in comic books and graphic novels, laying out historical timeline...

Like most industries of the era, television in the 1940s and ‘50s was largely a male monopoly. Four visionary women nonetheless began carving out s...

While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc...

Pay attention, scientists say. The deadly winter storm that pummeled Texas last month is the latest warning on the impact of climate change.  ...

Alvin Brooks’ mark on civil rights history in Kansas City – on the city’s history in total – is indelible. Born into povert...

For five years in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ellis Haizlip presided over one of the most culturally significant television shows in U.S. histor...

They came from different neighborhoods and ran with rival gangs on Chicago’s West Side. Improbably, the group of young men found promise and common...

Days before Christmas, on its website and across more 10 pages of its Sunday print edition, The Kansas City Star laid out a rema...

There’s a story – important and real-life – behind 9 to 5, both the iconic workplace-revenge movie and the catchy Dolly Parton song.&...

We could use a little “What, me worry?” right now, don’t you think?  That cheeky motto, attributed to freckled, gap-toothed mascot A...