A People’s History of Kansas City: Kansas City’s Barbecue King by Mackenzie Martin published on 2022-02-03T15:10:16Z A People’s History of Kansas City is a KCUR podcast about the everyday heroes, renegades and visionaries who shaped Kansas City. In this episode, reporter Mackenzie Martin turns our attention to Henry Perry, the Black entrepreneur who created Kansas City barbecue in the early 1900s.