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With the new novel The Cosmopolitans by lesbian author and activist Sarah Schulman, the New York-based F...

From racist cartoons and spray-painted anti-Semitic symbols to protest chants and signs condemning gays, hate speech has a long and perplexing hist...

Faith healer? Fraud? Or both? The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resemble...

Start your MidAmeriCon II day at the Kansas City Public Library with a presentation by science fiction/fantasy authors Beth Cato a...

Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm. In 10 Things I Hate About You (PG-13, 97 min., 1999), a retake of...

Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading...

Fifty-plus years after the creation of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, much progress has been made for women in the workplace. Bu...

Two of the world’s leading writers of epic fantasy – Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness, Protector of the Small) and...

It's not just bullies in the schoolyard that should worry us. Charles Derber and Yale Magrass point to a larger,...

One prominent theologian calls Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church “arguably the most obnoxious Protestant congregation in American religious history....