The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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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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There’s a story – important and real-life – behind 9 to 5, both the iconic workplace-revenge movie and the catchy Dolly Parton song.&...
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When Jonathan Scott, the eco-conscious co-star of HGTV’s popular Property Brothers, added solar panels to his Las Vegas h...
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For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S...
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Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R...
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In Person
Can the U.S. and other coronavirus-ravaged countries take a cue from individuals in crisis and follow their own 12-step path to recovery?...
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This Indie Lens Pop-Up event goes online with a screening and discussion of the 2019 documentary Bedlam, which takes an inti...
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Sunday, February 23, 2020
1:30pm
The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f...
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
6:30pm
A 17-year-old African American is found hanging from a swing set in the middle of an all-white trailer park in North Carolina. Police quickly de...