KANSAS CITY GUIDE

American Jazz Museum features  exhibits on Duke Ellington, Charley “Bird” Parker,

Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong, which alone, are worth the trip for jazz fans.

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is a must visit for all sports fans ... More

RESTAURANTS and NIGHTCLUBS

From the Blue Room at 18th & Vine, to Arthur Bryants Barbeque, to Gates Barbeque

and the many other Barbeque and Soul Food restaurants around town ... More

SHOPS and GALLERIES

Robert Frazier Gallery of Contemporary Art, Swing Shop, Gifted Hands,

Bacara and Today’s Men’s Wear offer soulful shopping choices ... More

BLACK GENESIS

Kansas City has been a key city in the Midwest for African Americans even before

the city was incorporated in 1850.  Many people escaped slavery in the

South to work as field and ranch hands here ... More

18TH & VINE DISTRICT
    This famous district was a magnet for Black folks from Omaha to Oklahoma City

point to the intersection of 18th & Vine, those two streets are but the

epicenter of a larger district historically and approximately

bounded by 12th Street, Troost Ave, 23rd Street and Prospect Ave ... More

KANSAS CITY JAZZ
    To Black musicians, "wide open" Kansas City meant steady work from the 1920s through the Depressionand attracted the best Blues and Jazz artists from Omaha,

Tulsa, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Memphis, Chicago and New Orleans ... More

KANSAS CITY BARBEQUE

If you think of steak and barbecue, you must add Kansas City to the same sentence. 

Local lore says that Kansas City Stockyards opened in 1870, thereby insuring

Kansas City would rival Chicago as a major distribution center for beef ... More

FAMILY ATTRACTIONS

Sprint Center, Union Station - Science City, Kansas City Zoo,

Truman Sports Complex, Worlds of Fun & Oceans of Fun,

National Agricultural Center & Hall of Fame ... More

GENERAL ATTRACTIONS

Country Club Plaza is KC’s most popular destination, this 14-square-block plaza

was designed in 1922 with an airy architecture style modeled after Seville

its sister city in Spain ... More

PERFORMING ART VENUES

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Coterie Theatre, Starlight Theatre,

Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Verizon Wireless Amphitheater give Kansas City

and nice collection of classic and modern venues ... More

ART and HISTORY MUSEUMS

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, one of America’s encyclopedic art museums, 

includes a growing collection of modern sculpture enhanced with works

by contemporary African American artists such as ... More

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