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The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundat...

Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative m...

Gallery exhibits. Kids’ activities. Music. Munchies. The Library again makes a place on First Friday for the entire family....

Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...

As the 2016 election season unfolded, it often seemed that moderates were difficult to find. In fact, today’s bitter partisanship encourages us to...

The Islamic State, or ISIS, refers to its enemies as Roman crusaders, and the notion of the Western world imposing its will on the Middle East is o...

Decades before women in the U.S. could vote, hold public positions, or choose from a full range of occupations, young women and girls in the Kansas...

 Emanuel Leutze’s iconic painting of George Washington crossing the icy Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 might have been a bit dramatized (...

The date that President Franklin Roosevelt said “will live in infamy” – December 7, 1941 – indeed endures as an American milepost. Seventy-five...

Being black today means trying to make sense of unarmed men of color dying at the hands of police, of a country professing enlightenment while stru...