All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Winter FYI Book Club: "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times" by Taylor Byas, 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award winner....
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Monday, July 3, 2023
In war, amputees might be celebrated as heroes. But those with damaged faces endure a far different reception.
They “often caused feelings...
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Monday, May 15, 2023
Stop by select Kansas City parks and visit with your Library for this year's Pop In at the Park summer series! We'll be popping up...
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Friday, December 30, 2022
In the spirit of the service embodied by Dr. King, the Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting donations of travel size personal care item...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in spring of 2020, the Library had just received our shipment of materials for the Book Rich Environment...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Quindaro only lasted for six years—but one hundred sixty years later, it still fascinates people for its links to the Underground Railroad....
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Friday, March 4, 2022
Jack Johnson was one of the most famous people in the world in February 1912, having pummeled Jim Jeffries 19 months earlier in the “Fight of the Cent...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022
In keeping with the civil rights leader’s spirit of service, the Kansas City Public Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Want a read on the progress women are making in society, on where they once stood or stand now in their centuries-long struggle for equal access and o...
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Monday, July 26, 2021
Stanley Banks' Blue Beat Syncopation: Selected Poems 1977-2002 is a frank meditation on the Black experience in Kansas City at t...