Some 30 years ago, few knew Kansas City’s Black business community better than Larry Jackson Jr. The lifelong city resident and bootstrap entrepreneur was a “walking Rolodex” of the day’s places and ...

Black Power Naps installation view at Performance Space in New York in 2019 (photo by Da Ping Luo, courtesy Navild Acosta) “I'm anxious that because of what happened at MoMA, people are backing out of ...

Marvin Dulaney can’t always field enough staff on Saturdays to serve the growing crowds visiting the African American Museum of Dallas. The number of visitors has nearly doubled in recent years and ...

Larry Jackson Jr. sits at the desk of one of his many offices over the years. In the 1990s, he started an advertising firm in the Lincoln Building that produced a Black Visitor’s Guide to Kansas City.

Larry Jackson Jr., the creator of The Black Visitor’s Guide to Kansas City, died June 10 from prostate cancer. He was 76. According to the Kansas City Star, while Jackson was best known for creating ...