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"Growing up, I thought I lived in like a black city," says Nathan Louis Jackson, who spent his childhood and early adulthood in the Quindaro neighborhood…
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Actor and Late Night Theatre director Ron Megee says he isn't out to change the world.His troupe, where men often play women and vice versa, performs…
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For the past six years, Jyoti Mukharji has opened her home kitchen to teach Kansas Citians about Indian cuisine.But to her fans, her classes are more than…
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He’s an internationally-known food writer and photographer, an attorney and a former Congressional aide to Sam Brownback.She’s the communications director…
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For Mark Bedell, school was a safe haven.“It gave me an opportunity to be a kid because I had to be an adult a lot sooner than most kids should have to be…
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He was homeless in the ninth grade. And today, he's in charge of the Kansas City Public Schools. Meet the new superintendent.Guest:Mark Bedell,…
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On his 9th birthday, Crosby Kemper III realized that his family was different.His aunt’s ex-husband had kidnapped his cousin, and the uncle was arrested…
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Chuck Magerl grew up surrounded by family history.During Prohibition, his grandfather was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary for distributing alcohol.One…
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In 1975, Paul Stephen Lim, a KU student, was struggling to write a short story.One night, at a party, he was chatting with a theater professor about his…
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Krystle Warren's "To the Middle" is a song that sounds a little like a carnival ride, but it's actually her love song to Kansas City. Written when she…
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With his silvery hair, his sun-and-wind-weathered skin, formidable stature and a booming, resonant voice, Wes Jackson steps out of his pickup truck in a…
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The morning after his high school graduation, Jonathan Justus packed his car and moved to California. He didn't even wait a day, and he didn't leave with…