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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

FromA Frame of Mind


A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

FromA Frame of Mind

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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Jan 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Why do Kansas City and the Nelson-Atkins look the way they do? In this episode, we rewind to the beginning of the 1900s. Kansas City was booming from a Cow Town to the Paris of the Plains, and a few city planners and real estate developers saw opportunity. We meet J.C. Nichols, a real estate developer who perfected racially restricted covenants and made big decisions about the Nelson-Atkins when it opened. Along the way, host Glenn North takes us on a Sunday drive.Featuring Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II, Chiluba Musonda, Erik Stafford, Angel Tucker, and Jake Wagner.Learn more about our guests, see the art in this episode, and read a transcript here.
Released:
Jan 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (6)

A Frame of Mind takes a hard look at race in America through the lens of one art museum. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art sits at a crossroads: in the middle of Kansas City, in the middle of the country, and in the middle of America’s shifting cultural landscape. We’re working through the slow and sometimes messy change of a big museum asking what it can be and whose stories it tells. Along the way, host Glenn North meets brilliant Black and Native artists and thinkers in Kansas City who help us see through their eyes.