Charles Hammer (wearing a dark suit coat), reported for the Star on a 1963 stand-in by Black patrons denied entrance in their own neighborhood to the Pete Karos Cafe at 3115 Prospect Ave. Kansas ...

This is an 'Oz' of a different color. (Or, rather, Kansas.) All of the Kansas costumes are monochromatic, too, varying degrees of black and white.

People, landscape and architecture: These were the facets of Kansas that three photographers examined in a black-and-white documentary photography exhibit 40 years ago at the University of Kansas.

Three years after publishing “The Truth in Black and White,” this is how The Star has changed, and where we still see that there is work for our newsroom to do to improve.

KANSAS CITY, Kansas — A Wyandotte County judge struck down the state’s new congressional map, clearing the way for the Kansas Supreme Court to weigh in on how far politicians can go in ...