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Kids book on friendship a natural for Kansas City illustrator and buddy Taye Diggs Dan Kelly, The Kansas City Star Jan. 11 Award-winning Kansas City illustrator Shane Evans says he has been friends forever with actor Taye Diggs. So it is appropriate that their most recent collaboration their fourth children s book is called My Friend! When Evans and Diggs appeared on NBC s Today show Jan. 5 to promote My Friend!, which went on sale that day, Diggs said, It was all Shane s brain baby. Evans told The Star that the kernel of the book s idea came from when the two friends, who had met in high school in Rochester, New York, attended Syracuse University in the early 1990s. They worked together on a project about what being Black meant to them. ....