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KZNA-FM 90.5 serving northwest Kansas is operating at just 10% power using a back up transmitter while work continues to install a new transmitter. It expected that this work will completed by midweek with KZNA back to its full 100,000 watts of power with a state of the art transmitter to serve the area for many years to come.
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Reparations For Linnentown, A Majority Black Neighborhood In Georgia Destroyed By Urban Renewal

Published May 12, 2021 at 12:45 PM CDT

In the 1950s and 1960s, neighborhoods of color across the country were often destroyed to make way for new development in American cities. The practice had a name: urban renewal.

Typically people wouldn’t be paid for the property they lost. But now in Athens, Georgia, former residents of a neighborhood erased by urban renewal have won reparations of a sort. Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Grant Blankenship has more.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.