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The new autobiography "Show Me Justice: The Happy Life Journey of Alvin Lee Sykes" documents the extraordinary story of the self-taught legal scholar from Kansas City. Sykes fought tirelessly to re-open several unsolved civil rights cold cases, including the murder of Emmett Till.
Death of Sidney Poitier sparked memory for Jill Morin of asking her dad about marrying a black man after seeing movie 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.'
Death of Sidney Poitier sparked memory for Jill Morin of asking her dad about marrying a black man after seeing movie 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.'
Death of Sidney Poitier sparked memory for Jill Morin of asking her dad about marrying a black man after seeing movie 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.'
KCUR 89.3 How close did Kansas City come to being named Possum Trot? It's complicated. The People's History podcast digs into the facts behind the old story. John McCoy and 13 of his buddies rounded up $4,220 in 1838 and paid Jackson County for the area we now know as downtown Kansas City. McCoy had been operating an outpost called Westport, a supply stop for settlers and others heading west. He figured the purchase would be good for business. But the land they purchased had no name, no way to talk about it, nothing to scribble on a map so that others would make it a destination. The group wo...