2025 Metropolitan Community College, Kansas City News

‘We are 99.99% the same,’ host of PBS' ‘Finding Your Roots’ tells MCC’s MLK luncheon audience

The 2025 edition of the MCC Chancellor’s Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Luncheon, held Jan. 17 at KC's Union Station, raised $482,000-plus.The event was notable not just for its dynamic speakers, including PBS' Henry Louis Gates Jr., but also for humor and several “standing O’s.”