The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Crime Magazine publisher J. Patrick O’Connor discusses his book Justice on Fire: The Kansas City Firefighters Case and th...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Rhiannon Ally, the Emmy-winning evening news anchor for Kansas City’s NBC affiliate, 41 Action News, discusses her newly released children’s book, ins...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
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Sunday, August 26, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Sample some of the world’s faraway places in the latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with deme...
Thursday, August 23, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Jessica Lenahan’s three daughters were killed by their father in 1999, and her fight to bring meaning to their deaths led to one of the most significa...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America, Georgetown University’s Peter Edelma...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Dan Cameron, artistic director of the upcoming Open Spaces 2018, sits down with Library Director Crosby Kemper III to discuss the ambiti...
Thursday, July 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
From Patsy Cline (two days before she perished in a plane crash in 1963) to the Beatles to the Jacksons’ Victory Tour, former Kansas City Star...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Rutgers University historian Rachel Devlin examines an underappreciated aspect of civil rights history – the crucial role of young African-Amer...