HOW WILL KANSAS CITY LEADERS NAVIGATE POLITICS IN THE POST-CIVIL-RIGHTS ERA?!? "The Voting Rights Act built Kansas City’s Black political power. Now the Supreme Court has gutted the law that made it possible — and the fallout is already reshaping this year’s midterms. "Troost Avenue was Kansas City’s color line for decades: a hard boundary between a white west side and a Black east side. The Voting Rights Act is why Black Kansas Citians east of Troost ever elected one of their own, including Emanuel Cleaver, the city’s first Black mayor and now its congressman.