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Gwendolyn Grant, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, leads a discussion of its 2...

He has been the face of Kansas City for eight years. Now, as Sly James completes his second and mandatory final term as mayor, he loo...

Less than a week before the June 18 general election, the two candidates to succeed outgoing Kansas City Mayor Sly James face off on the issues and co...

The annual Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series returns, spotlighting a selection of sci-fi films as it looks to illuminate our understanding of...

On this date 99 years and 364 days ago, the Panama Canal opened and revolutionized maritime trade. It also threw the Panama Railroad and its parall...

There are few storytellers like old baseball scouts because, well, nobody collects stories like the guys who spend a lifetime crisscrossing America’s...

The pig is big in these parts. Both Missouri and Kansas rank among the nation’s top 10 pork-producing states, annually putting more than 2 million pou...

The year 2012 was a watershed for the Hollywood movie industry, producing the likes of Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables,...

Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...

The 92-year-old Holocaust survivor from Prairie Village, who endured internment in three Nazi concentration camps during World War II, sits down wi...