Black History

More than 20 million motorists a year travel Bruce R. Watkins Drive. But this vital corridor, completed in 2001, came at a high cost to East Side residents who endured a half-century of planning, neighborhood demolition, and freeway construction. Kansas City native Kevin Fox Gotham discusses the major conflicts and str...

Computer code bootcamps provide students with accelerated training in computer programming and job skills with the dual end goals of upward social mobility and increased community contribution. University of Missouri-Kansas City assistant professor Antonio Byrd discusses the ins and outs of...

Historian Donna Rae Pearson examines the lingering impacts of redlining and urban renewal and how each promoted residential segregation in communities across the nation.

In Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery, editor and historian Sydney Norton presents a series of essays detailing what unfolded when idealistic Germans, many of whom were highly educated and devoted to the ideals of freedom and democracy, left their homeland and s...