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Day: August 4, 2023

KC homicides are up sixteen percent and on track to set a new record, but Jackson County’s sheriff says he can help

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With Kansas City’s rising homicide rates, community leaders and local law enforcement are searching for ways to address the crisis. Just a few weeks before a deadly Memorial Day weekend, Kansas City Police Department Chief Stacy Graves had had announced a new violent crime reduction initiative. The plan is meant to ally the KCPD, county… Continue reading KC homicides are up sixteen percent and on track to set a new record, but Jackson County’s sheriff says he can help

Hip-Hop and Kansas City: It’s Complicated

Photography by Shawn Brackbill.

August marks the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop. Like most urban radio stations across the country at the time, Kansas City’s KPRS was slow to embrace the hip-hop movement fifty years ago. Despite being the nation’s oldest Black-owned radio station, it struggled with accepting this new art form created by Black and Latino youth.  Hip-hop ushered… Continue reading Hip-Hop and Kansas City: It’s Complicated