The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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There are more than 90,000 people on the kidney transplant list in the United States. Every day, 13 of them die waiting for a call. We need more li...
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In a special online presentation marking the wider reopening of the Kansas City Public Library’s physical spaces and services on June 1, renowned auth...
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Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life.
Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1...
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Today’s hyper-political sensitivity to U.S. Supreme Court appointments traces back to the only president elected from Missouri. Harry Truman revolu...
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Tim Fielder is among the artists placing new emphasis on Afrofuturism in comic books and graphic novels, laying out historical timeline...
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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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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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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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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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Days before Christmas, on its website and across more 10 pages of its Sunday print edition, The Kansas City Star laid out a rema...