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In a special online presentation marking the wider reopening of the Kansas City Public Library’s physical spaces and services on June 1, renowned auth...

Kansas City’s long-troubled public schools system has shown promising improvement. Student performance in math and English is rising. Full accredit...

Walk into one of the hundreds of donut shops in Southern California – the land of glitz also happens to be the country’s donut capital – and odds a...

Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life.  Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1...

Today’s hyper-political sensitivity to U.S. Supreme Court appointments traces back to the only president elected from Missouri. Harry Truman revolu...

The city of Philadelphia reduced the size of the local jail population by nearly half from 2015 to 2020, reflecting efforts by District Attorney&nb...

The Library celebrates the life and work of Missouri-born poet, playwright, and novelist Langston Hughes in a multifaceted event coin...

Tim Fielder is among the artists placing new emphasis on Afrofuturism in comic books and graphic novels, laying out historical timeline...

When President Franklin Roosevelt signed a 1941 executive order banning discrimination in the military and all other government agencies “because o...

Like most industries of the era, television in the 1940s and ‘50s was largely a male monopoly. Four visionary women nonetheless began carving out s...