Signature Events - Video | Kansas City Public Library

Nnedi Okorafor: 'Death of the Author'

Nnedi Okorafor & Kaite Stover

October 11, 2025

Speaker | Derrick Barnes: 'The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze'

Derrick Barnes & Rob Love

October 11, 2025

Housing as Economic Development

Chuck Marohn

September 30, 2025

Understanding the Constitution Today

Charles Zug

September 22, 2025

The Grand Lady of 12th Street: 125 Years of the Folly Theater

Kate Egan

September 21, 2025

Removal, Reparation, Repatriation, and Reconciliation

Stephen Aron

September 16, 2025

Kansas City and the 2026 World Cup: What You Need to Know

September 11, 2025

Immigration and the American Future

The Kinder Institute & Civil Dialogues

September 9, 2025

'Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion'

Chris DeVille

September 2, 2025

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide

Howard French

August 21, 2025

'Rehab: An American Scandal'

Shoshana Walter with Christopher Leonard

August 19, 2025

'Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State'

Caleb Gayle with Christopher Leonard

August 14, 2025

Unraveling 'Cadejo': A Twins’ Journey

Francisco Gabuardy & Fredy Gabuardy with Craig Auge

August 2, 2025

Sharing the Love of Gardening

Kristie C. Wolferman & Marianne Kilroy

July 29, 2025

Creating Belonging in a Fractured World

Jennifer Brown with Mará Rose Williams

July 24, 2025

The People, the President, and the Constitution

Kinder Institute, Jean Becker, & Linda Lorelle

July 22, 2025

We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate

Michael Grunwald & Christopher Leonard

July 8, 2025

Liberating Lawrence: Gay Activism in the 1970s

Katherine Rose-Mockry

June 25, 2025

'Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home'

Jonathan Capehart

June 12, 2025

'Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals)'

Kevin Schultz

May 21, 2025

Corruption in Truman's White House

John Robert Greene

May 8, 2025

Sheltering the Unsheltered

Mandy Chapman Semple

May 6, 2025

Shelf Life: A Big Read Storytelling Event

David Wayne Reed

May 1, 2025

Maya Angelou Book Award Winner

Jamel Brinkley

April 17, 2025