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KC CURRENTS 1-14-07

By Sylvia Maria Gross and Alex Smith

Kansas City, MO – Local activist Alonzo Washington takes on American Gangster, a television series on BET that profiles notorious criminals. Artist Adolfo Martinez documents two years of riding Kansas City buses in the early morning hours. African Americans return to the deep south, and, new latin jazz artists are going beyond Afro-Caribbean rhythms.

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