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Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
Andre M. Perry, Emmet Pierson Jr.

November 12, 2020
1 hour, 20 minutes

Drawing from his penetrating new book Know Your Price, the Brookings Institution’s Andre Perry joined Emmet Pierson Jr. of the nonprofit Community Builders of Kansas City in examining the long and deliberate devaluation of African Americans and the communities in which they live and the social and economic damage it has wreaked.



 

 

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Old in Art School
Nell Painter, Kaite Stover

November 16, 2020
59 minutes

Princeton historian and author Nell Painter gave up a decorated, 30-year career in academia to pursue a lifelong love of art, emerging at age 69 with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts. It was anything but easy. Joining the Library’s Kaite Stover, she recounted her challenging move into a new, youth-obsessed world in a discussion of her acclaimed book Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over.






 

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The National Road: Dispatches From a Changing America
Tom Zoellner, Melinda Henneberger

November 17, 2020
58 minutes

Author Tom Zoellner joins The Kansas City Star’s Melinda Henneberger in a discussion of his new book The National Road, which explores a unifying element in our too-often-divided country: We all share the same land. The election two weeks earlier lends new context.






 

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Making a Great City: The KC Spirit Playbook
Jeffrey Williams, Diane Binckley, Kyle Elliott, Jessica Oliphant

November 18, 2020
1 hour, 13 minutes

What is Kansas City’s master plan for the next 20 years? The city’s director and deputy director of planning and development, Jeffrey Williams and Diane Binckley, join Cookingham-Noll City Management Fellow Jessica Oliphant in discussing the nearly two-year effort to draw up a new comprehensive development plan by 2022.




 

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