People

By Matheno Frazier-Bey

Kansas City, Missouri – Matheno Frazier-Bey transferred to a new school in the middle of his fourth grade year. Anyone who ever moved or changed schools as a child knows the fear of having to meet all new classmates. He was timid, and predicted that he would be the outcast, but one girl changed that . . .

An exhibition at the H&R Block Artspace called "Humor Me" explores the role that humor plays in contemporary culture, from investigating serious subjects to highlighting more light-hearted ones.

By Laura Spencer

By Delores Jones

By Delores Jones

By Delores Jones

Kansas City, MO – Computer literacy is quickly becoming a necessity of modern life. But for children growing up without a computer in the home, it's hard to gain the ease and skill with technology that's necessary to compete. In what's called the digital divide - Black and Latino children around the country are less likely to have computers and access to the internet than white children.

On the February 8th edition of Up to Date, host Steve Kraske talked to Porter Arneill, the public art administrator for the Municipal Art Commission.

By Frank Morris

Kansas City, MO – As final preparations are made for funeral services for Coretta Scott-King in Atlanta, police there are bracing for some unwelcome guests from Topeka.

Fred Phelps, and his Westboro Baptist Church has long exploited such public events for their virulent, anti-gay demonstrations. Law makers in more than a dozen state capitols are taking steps to neutralize the protests, but the controversial preacher argues that would take away his First Amendment rights. KCUR'S Frank Morris reports.

By Michael Leahy

Kansas City, MO – On Wednesday, the basic bus fare in Kansas City went up a quarter, to a dollar twenty-five. Express route fares increased to 2 dollars and 50 cents and reduced fares went up from 50 to 60 cents. Michael Leahy hit the streets that day to see how people were reacting to having to dig in their pockets for the extra change.

By Delores Jones

Kansas City, MO – Coretta Scott King, who died last Monday, was known as the strong, solid woman who stood behind Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., in life and after his assassination. Reverend Jesse Jackson described her as the glue that kept Dr. King's home and movement intact. To find out about being the wife of a preacher and activist, we turned to Dianne Cleaver, known by most people as the wife of 5th district Congressman Emanuel Cleaver. He was the first African American mayor of Kansas City and a long time civil rights activist.