Located in Kansas City’s Historic 18th and Vine Historic District, the Blue Room is part jazz club and part museum. Part of the adjoining American Jazz Museum, the venue features a mixture of local, home-grown musicians and national headliners fill the stage six days a week. No smoking and no food service, but, fortunately, one can find [...]
Gem Theatre | Kansas City, MO
The building that currently houses Kansas City’s Gem Theatre was originally built in 1912 as a silent film movie house named the Star Theatre that catered primarily to African American audiences. It was renamed the Gem Theatre in 1923 after its owners remodeled its exterior to give it more curb appeal. The Gem continued to [...]
18th & Vine Historic District | Kansas City, MO
Photo (L-R): Blue Room Jazz Club, Negro League Baseball Museum Along with New Orleans’s Basin Street, Beale Street in Memphis, 52nd Street in New York and Los Angeles’s Central Avenue, the intersection of 18th and Vine is one of the most famous street corners in the world…….the birthplace of Kansas City Jazz. The 18th and Vine [...]
Black Archives of Mid America, Kansas City, MO
View of the Rose Room at the Street Hotel, Kansas City, MO Often considered as a potential rival to the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, the Black Archives of Mid America boasts one of the largest collections of African-American [...]
