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Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The mission of Freedom’s Frontier is to tell the stories of our struggle for freedom. A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. The conversation between Colby & Benton is facilitated by Educator Marlee Bunch and is made possible in part through a grant from Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area. No matter the location or relationship, the stories echo each other. People spoke about encounters in stores and restaurants, on streets and in schools. They told their stories through e-mail, personal interviews and at roundtable discussions in four cities. The Strange Story of Integration offers an honest portrait of race in America, and specifically traces the history of housing discrimination in Kansas City neighborhoods.” The Southern Poverty Law Center gathered hundreds of stories of everyday bigotry from people across the United States. Colby sought to discover how half a century after the Civil Rights Movement true integration has made few in roads in so many Americans’ lives. Nearly everyone he knew and interacted with was white. After the election of America’s first black president, Tanner Colby realized that not only had he had no black friends, but he’d never even had a black teacher, college professor, or workplace mentor. In conversation with KC Real Estate Attorney, Shomari Benton, Tanner Colby, the author of Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America, will discuss the history of race and real estate practices and how our communities continue to be impacted today.Ĭolby’s book Some of My Best Friends are Black is a narrative history of modern race-relations in the United States, and was nominated for the American Library Association's 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-fiction.