John Brown and The Last Train As a companion piece to my documentary Freedom Seekers Stories From the Western Underground Railroad, I authored a book about John Brown’s last action in Kansas. This raid...

The Rescue of Dr. John Doy In December, 1858, U.S. Marshals and other slave hunters were making repeated attempts to capture both free and fugitive African-Americans slaves who had sought shelter in...

Freedom Seekers: Stories from the W... The Underground Railroad along the Missouri-Kansas border was the most dangerous escape route in the U.S. To get on the line to Canada, freedom seekers had to dodge professional...

Gangland Wire The origins of the Kansas City Crime Family, known better on the street as the “Outfit,” date back to the early part of the 20th Century. A small band of immigrant...

Negroes to Hire “Negroes to Hire is moving and painful, but at its core offers hope and understanding for our country’s best future by exposing an aspect of its worst past. True tales...

KC Free Health Clinic Our production commemorating the Kansas City Free Health Clinic’s 35-year anniversary was featured on Kansas City Public TV’s Screentime on August 21, 2008, and was...