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Mike Feinberg, co-founder of the Knowledge Is Power Program Schools, discusses an examination of KIPP-endorsed ideas such as lo...

Renowned Mexican international scholar and political scientist José Luis Valdés-Ugalde presents An Histori...

Award-winning novelist Chang-rae Lee discusses his new novel The Surrendered, a spellbinding story of how love and war...

Dr. James H. Willbanks discusses the events that led to the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday, April 2...

Master storyteller Gladys Coggswell shares inspirational tales and “down-home” stories about all walks of African-American life...

Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first black woman...

Veteran Washington journalist Carl M. Cannon, co-author of Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawy...

Watch and listen as Kansas City jazz greats come to life. Chuck Haddix discusses the musicians portrayed in...

Lately, schools and colleges everywhere in the United States have been discarding studies in the humanities as if they were idle luxuries and e...

Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda introduces Kansas City’s 2010 Big Read selection—Marilynne Robinson...