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In a special presentation as part of the Library’s yearlong sesquicentennial celebration, NPR’s Ari Shapiro – host of the award-winning news magazine...

Carrie Westlake Whitney was a remarkable exception to the patriarchal times in which she lived, a 27-year-old woman who became the first full-time dir...

As part of the Library’s sesquicentennial celebration, decorated author Jacqueline Woodson joins in a public conversation about her life and career, t...

**Join us starting at 6 p.m. for a reception hour with food by Dutzel's Catering, music by The Phantastics, and two special drinks. The Kansas City...

Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...

Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...

The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out...

Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo...

Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...