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Stephen Locke and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg find beauty in bad weather – in thunderstorms and tornadoes, wall clouds...

Everyone is susceptible to implicit bias – unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect judgments about others based on their race, ethnicity,...

The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S...

Participating in the conversation are several notable local music personalities: Katy Guillen (of the band Katy Guillen and the Gi...

Guido Ruggiero underscored his position as one of the world’s leading authorities on the Italian Renaissance with his most recent...

Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech – delivered 70 years ago at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri – still resounds today. Most contemporar...

The Kansas City Public Library plays host to the annual Missouri 5th Congressional District student art exhibit and celebration, a...

Seventy years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson called the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg “the greatest tribute power ha...

Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...