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"Laying on that ground, bleeding out. So many people around holding my chest. People I didn't know. I come from Kansas City so death is kind of hard out here, so I thought I was dying. I didn’t think of myself as surviving."One hundred and twen
How did we get here? I mean, physically, here in Kansas City. Some of us were born here, others moved from different cities, but some of us traveled here from a different country all together.This is the second episode of an on-going series h
How did we get here? I mean, physically, here in Kansas City. Some of us were born here, others moved from different cities, but some of us traveled here from a different country all together.This is the first episode of an on-going series he
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One of my favorite authors, Colum McCann, wrote in his novel Transatlantic that, “We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mobius strip, until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.” That’s certainly true of Cit
There’s a common phrase, “it takes a village to raise a child”, but sometimes it takes a child to bring a village together. This is a story about a family helping each other to save one of their own, and a mother going through to hell to make a
A few days ago, a post was up-voted to the top of the Pokemon Go reddit about how the new video game was working against racial biases for a black man here in Kansas City. This is a story about that reddit post.
Gary Jenkins was a KCMO police officer during one of the largest mob busts in history. He retells that story and other greatest hits of historical mafia stories on his KC based podcast, Gangland Wire.
Everybody responds to tragedy differently. Some, require silence and mourning, others need to rail against the sadness with noise and celebration. This story is about one Kansas city jazz artists’ response to an international tragedy. This is H
People say it only takes seven seconds to make a lasting first impression. For must of us that means we spend a lot of time and effort creating and crafting an outward appearance that shows the world what’s inside. Ken Stanely is an artist from
Two years before Jolie Justus was elected the first openly gay state senator in Missouri, the General Assembly pushed an anti-gay marriage amendment to the ballot box, and voters approved it by 71%. This was in the forefront of her mind on her
Borders separate us, but they also define us. Creating your identity means defining what you are in relation to what you are not. This episode is about an artist who walked the border of Kansas City to discover himself and what lies at our boun
Five thousand dollars in 28 days, four schools, fifteen hundred winter clothing packs for kids in need, and two KC women. For our Holiday Special we could have talked to a burned out Mall Santa or star crossed Christmas lovers…instead we decide
Kevin Bryce is a documentary filmmaker from Kansas City Missouri. His 2012 documentary, We Are Superman, explored the after effects of hyper-segregation on Troost Ave and a movement trying to transform it from a dividing line into a gathering p
How many men do you know who stay at home raising children and working in the kitchen? Well according to a Pew Research study from 2014, the number of stay at home dads had doubled to 2 million between 1989 and 2012. These two guys in Kansas Ci
Dave Hudnall has been a writer at The Pitch for the past four and a half years. He's covered stories about the streetcar, disappearing tiny house enthusiasts, and, most notably, the payday loan industry. Recently, he took a new job in North Car
For our final Halloween episode, we get taken on a tour of the famous John Wornall Museum. This historic building was a field hospital during the Civil War. Both Confederate and Union soldiers died there.
Do you know everything that happened in your house before you lived there? Who were the people that lived their before you…was your kitchen always a kitchen…or did it used to be a surgery room…did anyone die there? Some of the homes and apartme
You know that sound….the one you hear in your house late at night….the sound of something in the room, in the basement, around the corner. You know that shadow in the staircase of your apartment, the one that you swear looks almost human. This
The story of one of KC's first community gardens and the woman who started it.
Charlie Parker, also know as “Bird or Yardbird” was born in Kansas City on August 29th 1920. He is considered one of the single greatest jazz musicians of all time, and the inventor of the modern jazz solo. Today was his birthday.
This piece was done as part of KCRW's 24 RadioRace. The theme for that race was "Time Change".
On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people were killed, and 200 were injured. This is a story of a survivor who will never escape the memory
This is a story about discovering the person behind the tinder profile, beyond the Facebook page.
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