Seg. 1: Strawberry Hill. Seg. 2: Violence In Pop Music

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Segment 1: An iconic KCK neighborhood teeters on the brink of change.

Strawberry Hill overlooks the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, I-70, the West Bottoms and downtown. It's maintained its identity as a Croatian neighborhood, despite several waves of new arrivals and teetering on the edge of gentrification for more than a decade. Could that accelerate? And what would that mean?

  • Anna Cole, Strawberry Hill resident
  • Nick Tomasic, Strawberry Hill native
  • Daniel Serda, urban planner and lifelong KCK resident


Segment 2, beginning at 35:01: Pop music lyrics are heavy on violent messaging.

Rap and hip-hop often get a ... well, 'bad rap' ... for having violent lyrics. But new research shows that violent messaging is at least as prevalent in pop music, if not more-so.

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Gina’s background combines print and broadcast journalism, live event hosting and production, creative nonfiction writing and involvement in the arts. Early in her career, she followed a cultural beat for The Pitch, where she served as an editor and art writer in the early 2000s.
Melody Rowell