Florida Repertory Theatre will hold its PlayLab Festival May 4 – 7 in the Historic Arcade Theatre. The 2023 PlayLab lineup includes five plays reflecting Florida Rep's mission to produce a wide variety of work by emerging and well-established writers.
St. Louis Students Explore Martin Luther King Jr.’ s Legacy with Michelle Tyrene Johnson. Since 2006, the Pulitzer Center has collaborated with Civitas, a youth engagement nonprofit organization based in St. Louis. Through this collaboration, the Pulitzer Center offers students attending public, private, and parochial schools in the St. Louis area the opportunity to meet with Center-supported journalists, who meet with students to discuss their reporting projects and journalistic processes. Over the years, journalists have discussed their work on climate change, migration, policing, and more. Click here to explore past topics, partner journalists, and photo galleries.
From March 8 to March 9, 2022, grantee Michelle Tyrene Johnson presented to seven schools in the St. Louis area virtually via Zoom. Johnson's Pulitzer Center-supported reporting project, A Tale of Three Kings, was produced in collaboration with and ran at KCUR-FM 89.3, the flagship NPR station in Kansas
As we celebrate Black History Month, we walked down Kansas City's African American Heritage Trail to find how three locations live beyond the history books.
/ KCUR took home five Edward R. Murrow Awards from the 2021 contest.
The station was recognized for its reporting on climate change in Kansas City, investigations into surprise medical billing, and remembrances of lives lost during the pandemic.
KCUR 89.3 has been awarded five Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for its 2020 coverage on the Kansas City region, spanning from reporting on Black Lives Matter protests to a series remembering the people lost to COVID-19.
The Murrow Awards, which are given out every year by the Radio Television Digital News Association, are among the most prestigious prizes in journalism.
KCUR competes in the large market radio division of Region 5, which includes the states of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. The winners of the regional awards will go on to compete in the national competition.