Crime family. Next on American History tv, the former fbi agent discusses the citys gangster past and newly discovered archives of mug shots from the Kansas City Star newspaper. Held by the kansas city public library. This is a little more than an hour. Welcome everyone. Our Research Room and archives are headquartered just across the hall from this auditorium. In the Missouri Valley room, you will find books, articles and newspaper clippings documenting the hus ri of organized crime in kansas city from backhand era to bootlegging with ties to the pendergast machine through the 26reign of crime box dick civella, and bombing businesses in the river kiev. Whether we like it or not, organized crime is part of our history. It continues to capture or fascination as well as generate interest in new scholarship. Last year the special Collections Department acquired a piece of our mafia past with the organized crime files of the Kansas City Star were donated by former star reporter mike mcgraw
Selfcleaning board. I want to give a special like you to our sponsors who have been generous in their support this evening. Excuse me, especially when thrust is our [inaudible] todays program will be broadcast live on the spin to book tv and if theres time at the end for a q a session with the author we ask you to use the microphone located at the center of the room so the home viewing audience can hear your questions. For we begin todays program we ask you to silence your cell phones and turn off the camera flashes. Im here to introduce you to here to introduce our guest is [inaudible], reporter and columnist for the chicago suntimes, president of the chicago chapter of the National Association of black journalists and president of the chicago journalist association. Please welcome [inaudible] of the chicago suntimes. Thank you back. [applause] good morning. Thank you all for being here today. For joining us for what promises to be an inspiring and intriguing conversation. As a column
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Massing its forces now a free kurdish enclave in syria while the u. S. Is denying it plans to form a new Kurdish Military force further east and. Were going to look at the. Threat it poses to an already volatile region also on the grid the french president emmanuel micron makes the trip across the English Channel between tyson controls a very crossing from small sixty Million Dollars to keep border controls in cali as the issue of migrants is raised once again and donald trump handed out his socalled. Awards but its glossing over whats become an increasingly combative relationship between the media and the president and see if theres actually now antagonism coming from both sides there are fifty states in the u. S. But theres a push for just one more they call it New California those wanting it are over big City Politics and high taxes those against it say itll never happen we have a conversation and your reaction to a split california im were harding connected us with a hash tag. You
Transferred where President Trump says duterte is doing an unbelievable job on the drug program. We will speak also with Glenn Greenwald about how the Media Coverage of the Manchester Bombing victims should be a model for all young victims of war from yemen to afghanistan. Plus, we will speak to toronto activist and journalist desmond cole. I think what was revealed is a certain naivete where we ignore very obvious problems of racial discrimination. We want to tell ourselves that it is not happening here and we especially want to tell ourselves we are not the United States of america. Amy up until recently, desmond cole was a columnist at the toronto star. Its editors told him he had to choose between being a journalist or a black lives matter activist. He decided to stop writing his column. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from toronto, canada. In new revelations about possible