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KC CURRENTS 8-21-05

KANSAS CITY, MO – UMKC launches the new Institute for Urban Education. A third installment in Memory Brown's audio diary about her experience at Alvin Ailey dance camp. Alaadeen talks about his new album "New Africa Suite." Georgian folksongs at the Hen House in Fairway. From Latino USA, a profile of Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

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