On Saturday, October 11, the Central Library is open to registered Heartland Book Festival attendees only. Regular services, such as hold pickups, public computers and phones, and public meeting rooms, will not be available.
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Signature Event
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
6:30pm
Online
When President Franklin Roosevelt signed a 1941 executive order banning discrimination in the military and all other government agencies “because o...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Like most industries of the era, television in the 1940s and ‘50s was largely a male monopoly. Four visionary women nonetheless began carving out s...
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Thursday, March 18, 2021
6:00pm
Online
While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc...
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Sunday, March 14, 2021
3:00pm
Online
In commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail, historian Joy L. Poole examines the stories of five wives who...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Pay attention, scientists say. The deadly winter storm that pummeled Texas last month is the latest warning on the impact of climate change. ...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Alvin Brooks’ mark on civil rights history in Kansas City – on the city’s history in total – is indelible. Born into povert...
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Sunday, February 21, 2021
3:00pm
Online
While his story is not widely known, Kansas City civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan was among the most influential African Americans in Missou...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021
6:30pm
Online
They came from different neighborhoods and ran with rival gangs on Chicago’s West Side. Improbably, the group of young men found promise and common...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Days before Christmas, on its website and across more 10 pages of its Sunday print edition, The Kansas City Star laid out a rema...