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Digging Up Your Roots in Kansas City

Join KCPT at the Black Archives of Mid-America on Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 7pm for a sneak peek of the upcoming 10-part PBS series Finding Your Roots.

Who are you? Where do you come from? These are the basic questions at the core of the new 10-part PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Join KCPT at the Black Archives of Mid-America on Thursday, March 15th at 7pm for a sneak peek of Finding Your Roots. The Archive’s Executive Director Dr. Doretha Williams and a panel with scholars from area universities and colleges will discuss the importance of race, genealogy and community as well as tools for discovering your own family’s history. The event is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Reserve your seat at here.

The Black Archives of Mid-America is located at 1722 E. 17th Terrace
Kansas City, MO 64108.

Watch Preview on PBS. See more from Finding Your Roots.

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The Sound of History: Mutual Musicians Foundation & Marr Sound Archives

Michael Feinstein's PBS Series American Songbook recently featured the Mutual Musicians Foundation and Marr Sound Archives. We share an excerpt and talk to Chuck Haddix about the musical treasures housed at UMKC.

It’s a national historic landmark. Some say it is truly sacred ground in the annals of jazz history. It’s the Mutual Musicians Foundation in the 18th and Vine Jazz District where musical giants like Count Basie and Charlie Parker played long into the night. Grammy award winning singer and musical history enthusiast Michael Feinstein just brought his national PBS series to Kansas City to experience our town’s musical treasures and he stopped by the foundation to experience a jam session for himself.

It wasn’t just the Mutual Musician Foundation capturing Feinstein’s interest here in town. While he was here, Feinstein also headed to another Kansas City sound treasure on the campus of UMKC…the Marr Sound Archives.

You can see the next chapter in Feinstein’s series Friday night at 9 here on KCPT.  Since you just got a peek inside the Marr Sound Archive,  Sound Recording Specialist Chuck Haddix sat down with Randy Mason to give a bit more insight into the music history treasure trove at UMKC.

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Black History Month: Freedom Seekers

It’s Black History Month and local filmmaker Gary Jenkins has just released a new documentary, Freedom Seekers, that tells the story of Missouri slaves escaping to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

It’s Black History Month and local filmmaker Gary Jenkins has just released a new documentary that tells the story of Missouri slaves escaping to freedom through the Underground Railroad. Freedom Seekers premieres at the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Library on Wednesday February 15th at 6:30 p.m.  followed by a panel  discussion featuring local historians and Jimmy Johnson III whose great grandfather escaped a Platte County slave farm.


A series of posters that tell the story of black leaders from a local perspective are available to you for free. From Baseball legend Satchel paige and NAACP leader Roy Wilkins to  jazz musicians Mary Lou Williams  and Speedy Huggins.

These would be perfect for schools, community centers, or any group settings. They are free and are being made available by LINC, the Local Investment Commission who is partnering on these for black history month with the The Kansas City Public Library and The Black Archives of Mid-America, with contributions from the The Kansas City Star.

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Freedom Riders: American Experience

A courageous band of young civil-rights activists who journeyed through the Deep South in 1961. Watch Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 7pm.

In 1961, segregation seemed to have an overwhelming grip on American society. Many states violently enforced the policy, while the federal government, under the Kennedy administration, remained indifferent, preoccupied with matters abroad. That is, until an integrated band of college students — many of whom were the first in their families to attend a university — decided, en masse, to risk everything and buy a ticket on a Greyhound bus bound for the Deep South. They called themselves the Freedom Riders, and they managed to bring the president and the entire American public face-to-face with the challenge of correcting civil-rights inequities that plagued the nation.

Freedom Riders: American Experience
Watch Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 7pm.

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