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KC CURRENTS 8-14-05

By Sylvia Maria Gross

Kansas City, MO – Local beauticians react to new program to prevent domestic violence in Kansas. Hear from the new trio of directors of Harmony-NCCJ: Juan Rangel, Diane Hershberger and Darryck Dean. A panel on civil rights and the media. And artist Ben Mercer discusses his photographs and drawings about the Vietnamese American community in the Kansas City area.

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