Local news reports have noted, without much detail, that the plan to open a lounge in the burgeoning riverfront district of Kansas City has gone awry because of its intended name, Sundown Hi-Fi. The name was deemed too controversial for the district’s developers because of the word’s association with the ugly segregationist history of the American south. I thought it might be useful to note that a similar thing occurred in Kansas City more than two decades ago. Of course, my long profile piece about the matter, from 2003, doesn’t exist in The Kansas City Star’s often pitiful online archive, so I’ve retrieved it from newspapers.com.