Weeks after residents of a Kansas City, Missouri neighborhood said they complained to police that Black women were missing, authorities are facing community backlash after a Black woman says a ...

Missouri’s homicide rate for Black women is 19.87 per 100,000 people, the second highest in the country after Washington, D.C. (20.45). In comparison, ...

Excelsior Springs, Missouri, resident Timothy M. Haslett, 39, was arrested on Oct. 7 after a woman escaped his home, according to a probable cause affidavit for the arrest.

The Missouri DHSS released their 2018-2022 Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review. The pregnancy-related deaths are decreasing ...

A Missouri man accused of kidnapping a woman and holding her hostage in his basement until she escaped in October 2022 faces an additional charge related to the ... The woman, who is Black, ...

A new federal lawsuit argues that the Missouri law cementing state governance of KCPD was created “to keep Black people enslaved.” One of the women is Narene Crosby, whose son Ryan Stokes was ...

3 Black Women Sue Missouri To End State Governance Of Kansas City Police. Three women, including the mother of a 24-year-old who was killed by a Kansas City officer, are suing Missouri Governor ...

Disproportionate effects on Black women. As two cancer specialists who are also Black women in Missouri, we witness firsthand the impact of inadequate healthcare access on communities of color.

FERGUSON, Mo. — In Missouri, data shows black women have higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates than white women, one St. Louis area organization is trying to change that one life at a time.

She said Black women have long fought battles over issues, including women’s rights, and winning elections. “The work isn't done and I'm accountable and responsible to my people. So I get up.

Weeks after residents of a Kansas City, Missouri neighborhood said they complained to police that Black women were missing, authorities are facing community backlash after a Black woman says a ...

Missouri residents say police dismissed reports of missing Black women, but a month later, a woman says she was kidnapped and believes there were other victims. — KMBC 1 ...