Professor Pellom McDaniels Wants to Move Kansas City's Black History Beyond Entertainment
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November 3, 2009
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Kansas City leaders may have shuttered the brothels and torn down the stockyards that once defined the town--and the mobsters may have blown themselves up in disco bombings back in the '70s--but there are still plenty of stories to tell...
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