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Box Office Home Run: The KC Premiere of ’42′

Hollywood megastars and baseball superstars walked the red carpet in Kansas City for the premiere of "42," the new Jackie Robinson movie. Randy Mason was on deck to catch the action.

Last Friday, the new movie 42, about Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier, opened in theatres nationwide. But the night before, Kansas City got a special preview at the Barrywoods AMC Theatre to raise funds for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. They rolled out the red carpet, and Randy Mason was on hand to see who came down it and why.

Wide shot of press gathering at the red carpet event for the movie 42

By the way, the 42 premiere raised some $200,000 for the museum, which also has another interesting project going right now. They have teamed with the UMKC Theatre Department to produce a new play about Satchel Paige and other Negro Leagues players.

It has some jazz in it too. The play is called Kansas City Swing and it will run at the James C. Olson Performing Arts Center on the UMKC campus from April 19-28, with a special reception in the lobby before the show on April 25.

Playbill for UMKC production of Kansas City Swing

You can see some photos from the red carpet event at The Local Show Facebook page. Be sure to “like” us for updates on what to look for in upcoming episodes.

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Holocaust Remembrance: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals

The University of Missouri-Kansas City, in partnership with the Kansas City Museum, presents Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945, a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Holocaust Remembrance Day is April 8.

In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah. Next Monday, April 8 is Holocaust Rememberance Day. The Kansas City Museum, in a partnership with UMKC, is currently presenting an exhibit which explores the Nazi persecution of homosexuals.

Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945 ends April 10 and was presented in support of the Spring concert of Heartland Men’s Chorus, Falling in Love Again.

The presentation of the exhibition is a project of GLAMA: the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America, a partnership of the Kansas City Museum and the LaBudde Special Collections Department of UMKC Libraries.

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Progress in Perspective: Oral History of Lynchings and Forgiveness

Rev. Angela Sims from the St. Paul School of Theology has begun capturing eye witness accounts of a dark chapter in American history. This segment from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly explores her motivation and discoveries.

In a week in which we mark the Martin Luther King Day holiday, we are reminded that, despite great strides in racial equality, there are still Kansas Citians who remember vividly a shameful chapter in American history including a time when lynchings were a commonplace occurrence in America.

Before the generation of people who remember such atrocities dies off, a Kansas City scholar is trying to record eye-witness accounts and what she’s finding is not just graphic photos and consuming hate, but the ability of some of those most affected to forgive.

The PBS series Religion and Ethics Newsweekly recently came to Kansas City to report on that work. Bob Faw filed that report for the PBS series Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, which runs Sunday afternoons at 1:30 on KCPT.

Leafless tree and blue sky with Religion and Ethics Newsweekly logo in corner

WARNING: This report contains some disturbing images. Viewer discretion is advised.

Watch Lynching and Forgiveness on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

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Our Nation Was Changed

Discover how in this three-part series beginning Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 8pm.

Vividly bringing to life the epic struggles of the men and women who fought to end slavery, THE ABOLITIONISTS tells the intertwined stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown. Fighting body and soul, they led the most important civil rights crusade in American history. What began as a pacifist movement became a fiery and furious struggle that forever changed the nation. Black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists tore the nation apart in order to form a more perfect union. The series, which tells the story largely through period drama narrative, airs 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect in January 1863.

THE ABOLITIONISTS: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE airs in three parts.

Part One: 1820s-1838 premieres Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 8p0m
Part Two: 1838-1854 premieres Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 8pm
Part Three: 1854-Emancipation and Victory premieres Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 8pm

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