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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...

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

Bill Tammeus and his family have borne a deep personal loss since the terrorists’ attacks of September 11, 2001. His nephew, a bond ana...

Think you know your hometown?   You might be steeped in Kansas City’s cowtown heritage, but how about the finer details – like the a...

It has been 10 months since the confetti fluttered in south Florida’s Hard Rock Stadium, since the Kansas City Chiefs ended their fitful, half-cent...

Princeton historian and author Nell Painter gave up a decorated, 30-year career in academia to pursue a lifelong love of art, emergin...

Drawing from his penetrating new book Know Your Price, the Brookings Institution’s Andre Perry joins...

Five days before Americans go to the polls, two leading writers/journalists with both local and national perspective – best-selling author and...

Les Payne’s new biography of Malcolm X already has made waves, revealing a clandestine meeting between the incendiary civil rights activist and an...