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Alvin Brooks: A Life Of Public Service To Kansas City

KCUR | By Steve Kraske,
Danie Alexander, Zach Wilson
Published February 23, 2021 at 3:36 PM CST

The former mayor pro tem, councilman, police detective and assistant city manager reveals what he has learned from decades in public service.

Maybe waiting until he was 88 to release his autobiography was the right time for Alvin Brooks. His is a long and distinguished life of public service to the Kansas City community at large — and the Black community in particular. His work has never stopped as is evident in his autobiography "Binding Us Together: A Civil Rights Activist Reflects on a Lifetime of Community and Public Service."

Alvin Brooks will be in conversation with Mayor Quinton Lucas at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021, online via the Kansas City Public Library's YouTube page.

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Steve Kraske
Steve Kraske is an associate teaching professor of journalism at UMKC, a political columnist for The Kansas City Star and has hosted "Up to Date" since 2002. He worked as the full-time political correspondent for The Star from 1994-2013 covering national, state and local campaigns. He also has covered the statehouses in Topeka and Jefferson City.
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Danie Alexander
Danette (Danie) Alexander first came to KCUR in 2007 as an intern for Up to Date after completing her B.A. in Communications at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. After her KCUR internship was completed, Danie continued to spend her mornings assisting senior producer Stephen Steigman as a volunteer with the show. Her radio experience also includes stints with public radio's New Letters on the Air as a broadcast engineer and on local public radio as host of a weekly overnight call-in show.
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Zach Wilson