Southeast branch is opening late at noon on Saturday, September 28, due to staffing issues.
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As America’s education system approaches a pivotal new school year, former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sits down with Lib...
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In an online KC Library program, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her new book On Juneteent...
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Nearly half a century’s work in photography and art has brought Patty Carroll to the Central Library’s first-floor Genevieve Guldner Gallery....
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Former Kansas City Star writer and editor Steve Paul joins Kaite Stover, the Library’s director of readers’...
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Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits.
How far is Kansas City from...
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If, indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic is waning in the United States, the questions and concerns around it have not. Where do dangerous new viruses lik...
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There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society...
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Pressing then-President Donald Trump on the issue of voter suppression a little more than 2½ years ago, veteran White House correspondent A...
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These rancorous political times arouse a certain wistfulness for a president who sought a “kinder and gentler nation.”
George H. W....
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Before emerging as a critically acclaimed writer and poet and earning appointments to criminal justice panels by President Obama and the governor o...