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

While his story is not widely known, Kansas City civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan was among the most influential African Americans in Missou...

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...

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

While more than three dozen Kansas City restaurants have closed for good amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many, many more have managed to survive. But w...

More than three dozen Kansas City restaurants, from burger joints to fine food establishments, have permanently closed over the past 10 months, par...