The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, October 11, 2015
2:00pm
Kansas City’s Green Duck Tavern, at 26th Street and Prospect Avenue, was once an unassuming seat of power, owned by politician and civil rights activi...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
The Westport Center for the Arts and Jacqueline L. Gafford present a one-woman play about the life and times of Barbara Jordan, the first southern bla...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 22, 2015
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends in an afternoon of stories and songs about “love gone wrong,” part of the Library’s A...
Signature Event
Friday, August 15, 2014
6:00pm
The Kansas City Public Library and The KC Kingpen Coalition present drug-kingpin - turned philanthropist and author - Freeway Rick Ross. He will disc...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 10, 2014
2:00pm
Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictional A...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 10, 2014
2:00pm
Several Kansas Citians including neighborhood residents Alvin Brooks, Karen Slaughter, Telester Powell, Joe Louis Mattox recently created digital stor...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 29, 2014
2:00pm
In partnership with the Westport Center for the Arts we will present a reading of The 3 Ms. This new play features the widows of Martin Luther King,...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 14, 2014
2:00pm
During decades of official segregation in public schools, all-black Lincoln High was a source of community inspiration, pride, and hope matched only b...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2014
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mitty)...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
4:00pm
Join us as we commemorate one of the landmark events in the civil rights movement.
Library staff will lead a march around the block carrying signs re...