Signature Events - Video | Kansas City Public Library

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

'Sitting Pretty': A Big Read Conversation

Rebekah Taussig

April 15, 2025

MF DOOM, Rap's Masked Iconoclast

S.H. “SKIZ” Fernando Jr. and Paul Nyakatura

March 13, 2025

A Troubled Dream: Conflict and Compromise in the Building of Bruce R. Watkins Drive

Kevin Fox Gotham

March 12, 2025

Guerrilla Violence in the American Civil War

Andrew Fialka & Anderson Carman

March 11, 2025

Fighting for a Free Missouri

Sydney Norton

February 9, 2025

The Kansas City Sound: A History of Local Music from Jazz to Punk

Cody Wyoming

January 29, 2025

Flourishing in an Uncertain World: How Entrepreneurs Overcome Doubts and Disagreements

Amar Bhidé

January 16, 2025

Hot Holiday Selections

December 12, 2024

He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why it Matters

Schuyler Bailar

December 5, 2024

The Power of Our Supreme Court: How Supreme Court Cases Shape Democracy

Matt Beat

November 14, 2024

The Role of Central Library in Downtown’s Revitalization

November 12, 2024

How Facts Help Us Feel Less Afraid: Lessons from "The Small and the Mighty"

Sharon McMahon

October 24, 2024

Borderlands and the Mexican American Story

David Dorado Romo

October 22, 2024

Stacey Abrams on the Importance of Libraries

October 12, 2024