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Up to Date focuses on pressing issues, both local and national, including politics, economics, planning and design, history and entertainment - topics that have an impact on the lives of the Greater Kansas City region.
Given the circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic and KCUR's role in keeping the community as updated as possible with credible and consistent information, Central Standard and Up To Date are combining resources to bring you daily updated coverage beginning each weekday morning at 9 a.m.
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Coming up the week of June 8, 2020:
- Monday: Voting by Mail / Pandemic Design & Architecture
- Tuesday: Widow of Slain Overland Park Police
- Wednesday: Kansas City Restaurant Owners / Neighborhood Architecture
- Thursday: TBD
- Friday: TBD
Latest Segments
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Ryan Stokes, Terrance Bridges, Cameron Lamb, and Donnie Sanders are some of the people memorialized by protesters in Kansas City. A Kansas City Star reporter recounts the history of violence between police and black men here.
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Full Episodes
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Details on recent demands for reform of the Kansas City Police Department, and the stories of some of the men killed by Kansas City police and honored recently by protesters. -
Experts give advice on how white people can be good allies during racial unrest, and how a black female comedian finds humor during trying times.
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A check-in on the the well-being of nurses working through the pandemic, incarcerated folks say health and safety recommendations are being ignored in Kansas prisons, and how a smartphone app could ease the labor of tracking positive COVID-19 cases.
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As police and protesters clash in cities from coast to coast, community members in and around Kansas City share thoughts on the tension, and the way forward.
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Last weekend's protests in Kansas City over police violence against black people had both peaceful and volatile moments, and long-standing health disparities are causing black Kansans and Missourians to die from COVID-19 at five to seven times the rate of white residents.
