Urban Connections

Bette Tate Beaver, Executive Director of The National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), and Lewis Diuguid, Author and Journalist, share insights from their tour of the southern states featuring symbols of confederacy. In addition, Boni Tolston educator, author and poet …

Bette Tate Beaver, Executive Director of The National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), and Lewis Diuguid, Author and Journalist, share insights from their tour of the southern states featuring symbols […] The post Thoughtful Conversations appeared first on KKFI .

Political Science Professor at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, Deborah Scott, makes the November 2018 Missouri ballot measures plain.

Political Science Professor at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, Deborah Scott, makes the November 2018 Missouri ballot measures plain. The post November 2018 Ballot Measures appeared first on KKFI .

David Muhammad, Shawnee Mission East High School Social Studies teacher, talks with us about the viral video featuring his class debating the use of the Confederate Flag.

David Muhammad, Shawnee Mission East High School Social Studies teacher, talks with us about the viral video featuring his class debating the use of the Confederate Flag. The post SME Confederate Flag Debate appeared first on KKFI .

Lyle Gibson of Metropolitan Community College and Jermaine Thomas of Taishi Studios engage us in a discussion on Kansas City’s Black Panther history. Their recent documentary, Legacy, Spirit of the Black Panthers, highlights Kansas City’s own, Pete (President of the …

Lyle Gibson of Metropolitan Community College and Jermaine Thomas of Taishi Studios engage us in a discussion on Kansas City's Black Panther history. Their recent documentary, Legacy, Spirit of the […] The post Legacy, Spirit of the Black Panthers appeared first on KKFI .

Glenn A. North, Director of Education and Community Programs for The Black Archives of Mid America and 18th & Vine District Poet Laureate, joins us live in studio to discuss visual culture. For All The World To See is a …

Glenn A. North, Director of Education and Community Programs for The Black Archives of Mid America and 18th & Vine District Poet Laureate, joins us live in studio to discuss […] The post For All The World To See appeared first on KKFI .

Dr. Dineo Khabele, Professor and Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at The University of Kansas Medical Center, joins us live in studio for a conversation around cancer, health and the African-American community.

Dr. Dineo Khabele, Professor and Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at The University of Kansas Medical Center, joins us live in studio for a conversation around cancer, health and the […] The post What is Cancer? appeared first on KKFI .

It has been reported and repeated that blacks in America have 1.3 trillion dollars in buying power. So, why do so many of us feel powerless? Jared A. Ball, Ph. D., Professor of Communication Studies, at Morgan State University joins us …

It has been reported and repeated that blacks in America have 1.3 trillion dollars in buying power. So, why do so many of us feel powerless? Jared A. Ball, Ph. D., […] The post The Myth of Black (All) Buying Power appeared first on KKFI .

Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization, is seeking to abolish the Prison Industrial Complex. Joining us live is Kamau Walton, member of Critical Resistance since 2010, and has been part of campaigns to stop gang injunctions, fight jail expansion, end …

Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization, is seeking to abolish the Prison Industrial Complex. Joining us live is Kamau Walton, member of Critical Resistance since 2010, and has been part […] The post Critical Resistance appeared first on KKFI .

February 2018 marks KKFI’s 30th year of being live on-air. Poet, Activist and Liberation Educator, Lloyd C. Daniel, joins us to celebrate 100,000 watts of people power!

February 2018 marks KKFI's 30th year of being live on-air. Poet, Activist and Liberation Educator, Lloyd C. Daniel, joins us to celebrate 100,000 watts of people power! The post KKFI Open House appeared first on KKFI .

Live in conversation with Cat Mahari.  She creates work with personal and collective transformational possibilities. A free-style  hip hop and house dancer, also trained in modern, ballet, West African, Cuban Son, and Chen taiji, whose work is grounded in the upliftment of the African Diaspora and peoples …

Live in conversation with Cat Mahari.  She creates work with personal and collective transformational possibilities. A free-style  hip hop and house dancer, also trained in modern, ballet, West African, Cuban Son, and Chen taiji, […] The post Dancing Her Blackness appeared first on KKFI .

Live in conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, an award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author, Professor of History and International Relations and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His second book, Stamped from the Beginning: …

Live in conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, an award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author, Professor of History and International Relations and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and […] The post There's Nothing Wrong With Black People appeared first on KKFI .

Dr. Nishani Frazier, Associate Professor of History at Miami University, shares insight from her latest book, Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism.

Dr. Nishani Frazier, Associate Professor of History at Miami University, shares insight from her latest book, Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black […] The post Harambee City appeared first on KKFI .

Penn Loh, Senior Lecturer and Director of Community Practice at Tufts University, joins us to discuss ways that Americans are redefining economy beyond capitalism. What if economy is all the ways that we meet our material needs and care for …