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MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart shares stories from his new book Yet Here I Am about growing comfortable with his identity as a gay Black man and the i...

Kansas City PBS host Nick Haines moderates a discussion on the state of aging and caregiving in Kansas City, in light of actor Bradley Cooper's new PB...

Join us for a celebration of local art at the 12th annual Art in the Loop Project kickoff event, featuring a musical performance by Monarch Duo, a tra...

The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College returns to the Library to launch a new series on the rise and fall of empires. Harry S. Laver reco...

Historian Kevin Schultz discusses his new book Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History, a criticism of modern liberali...

National Trust for Historic Preservation President Carol Quillen discusses the importance of storytelling – rooted in historic places – to a healthy d...

Bestselling co-authors Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness and Kansas City’s own Julie Murphy discuss their new book, Let Them Stare, a story about a haunte...

New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera discusses his latest young adult novel, The Survivor Wants to Die at the End, in conversation with Kans...

Composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach’s circle of friends and family included some of the most influential voices of the German Baroque era. Kan...

More than 50 years after the death of the Man from Missouri, historian John Robert Greene reevaluates a major – and ultimately sca...