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KC CURRENTS 10-8-06

By Delores Jones, Sylvia Maria Gross and Alex Smith

Kansas City, MO – Kansas City remembers Negro League champion Buck O'Neil. The founder of a local news and events website milatino.com talks about marketing to second and third generation Latinos in Kansas City. The local Samoan community mourns the death of Michael Fuga, a Missouri National Guardsman in Iraq. And, Kansas City Repertory Artistic Director Peter Altman, and actors James Craven and Abdul Salaam El Razzac discuss the legacy of playwright August Wilson.

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