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A-State Alum Arthur Agree brings "Hoop Dreams" Challenge Tour to Arkansas

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published November 10, 2016 at 11:47 AM CST

In this interview, KASU News Director Johnathan Reaves interviews Arthur Agee. The Arkansas State University Alumnus was featured in the 1994 film Hoop Dreams. The documentary focused on basketball, but also tackled some of the many challenges that youth face today. Agee is bringing his tour to Jonesboro and to the state. You can listen to this interview above.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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