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Season 1

  • S01E01 Alvin Brooks on Connecting the Black Community With Police

    • February 8, 2023
    • PBS

    A fixture in the community for decades, Brooks has served as a Kansas City policeman, assistant city manager, elected official and community leader — most notably as the founder of the AdHoc Group Against Crime.

  • S01E02 Diane Charity on the Fight for Fair Housing

    • February 13, 2023
    • PBS

    Diane Charity grew up during the civil rights era and has been active in local community development and politics ever since. She is known for serving as board president of the Manheim Neighborhood Association and the Parade Park Homes Cooperative. She also is a member of Kansas City PBS’ community advisory board. More recently, Charity became a key player in founding KC Tenants.

  • S01E03 Rev. John Modest Miles on Building Community

    • February 20, 2023
    • PBS

    As pastor of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, Miles has a firsthand view of his community. In this week’s installment of “Passing the Baton,” a series of cross-generational conversations hosted by urban educator Carl Boyd, Miles reflects on efforts to redevelop the area around 27th Street and Prospect Avenue with educator Jannette Bush.

  • S01E04 Carmaletta Williams on Highways Breaking Neighborhoods

    • March 2, 2023
    • PBS

    Carmaletta Williams has warm memories of growing up in a close-knit Kansas City neighborhood. Williams, CEO of the Black Archives of Mid-America, has entirely different feelings about how the highway now known as Bruce R. Watkins Drive changed the city.

  • S01E05 Sonny Gibson’s Pursuit of Local Black History

    • March 7, 2023
    • PBS

    In this week’s installment of “Passing the Baton,” a series of cross-generational conversations hosted by urban educator Carl Boyd, Gibson shares with activist and radio producer DeQuai Wilson his process in researching topics like the creation of the first hospital for African Americans in Kansas City.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Judge Gaitan

    • February 2, 2024
    • PBS

    Senior U.S. District Judge Fernando J. Gaitan Jr. reflects on a long, groundbreaking legal career as part of our "Passing the Baton" series. Gaitan served as Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s first African American corporate lawyer. He later became a federal judge in Kansas City.

  • S02E02 Cassandra Wainright

    • February 9, 2024
    • PBS

    Meet Cassandra Wainright, the first woman president of the Concerned Clergy Coalition of Kansas City.

  • S02E03 Carl Boyd

    • February 16, 2024
    • PBS

    A conversation with Carl Boyd, the founder of STOOTS for Boots and Generation Rap, two influential programs serving Kansas City youth.