Literacy KC Is Creating Brighter Futures and A Conversation With Sister Helen Prejean

Literacy KC Is Creating Brighter Futures

Literacy KC’s Mission is “To advance literacy within the Kansas City metropolitan area through direct services, advocacy, and collaboration.” Literacy KC offers a welcoming community for adults and families to improve literacy skills and enhance quality of life. With support from volunteers, donors, partners, and the community at large, Literacy KC invests in Kansas City’s greatest asset – our people. The effect of what they do goes way beyond teaching people to read, it creates confidence, encourages engagement with others and allows the individuals to chart a new brighter future.

Literacy KC Model
Literacy KC is revolutionizing the way adult literacy education is delivered:
INSTRUCTOR LED: Qualified instructors teach relevant, responsive, and level-appropriate curriculum.
TUTOR-DRIVEN: Trained volunteer tutors support the instructors and help meet individual student needs.
STUDENT-CENTERED: Each student identifies academic and personal goals and instructors design lessons to help them meet these goals.

Host Allie Catherine Bush talks with Emily Hame, Programs Director at Literacy KC about the programs and services available and who is eligible to participate.

Contact Literacy KC –
211 West Armour Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64111
Phone: (816) 333-9332 Fax: (816) 444-6628
General Inquiries: [email protected]
Website – http://literacykc.org/

Sister Helen Prejean – Why She Opposes The Death Penalty
We replay an interview from December 21, 2015

Sister Helen Prejean is well known for her book Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States and the movie of the same name. She is also the author of a second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. Since she started writing to Patrick Sonnier in 1982 while he was on Death Row and witnessed his execution in 1984 she has worked tirelessly to abolish that form of punishment. A lot has happened in the last 30 years plus, public sentiment has been slowly swinging against the death penalty and executions have been diminishing across the county. Although just around half of the states still have the death penalty on their books only a few are still executing people with any regularity.

Host Craig Lubow got the opportunity to sit down and talk with Sister Helen Prejean about her journey from privileged young white woman to death penalty activist. She will explain how she became aware of the problems in the prosecution and administration of the death penalty.


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