The North-East branch will be closed Monday, July 22 for staff training.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the pervasive and pernicious impact that the digital divide – the economic, educational, and social inequity be...
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In a discussion of his new book The People, No, Kansas City-born author and political commentator Thomas Frank...
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In a discussion of his new, carefully researched book Tombstone, best-selling author Tom Clavin revisits Tu...
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Where are you on the complicated legacy of Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols? Should his name be removed from the parkway running to and alongside...
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The West Coast celebrates Bigfoot and the East Coast has Champy, the purported lake monster claimed by both New York and Vermont. But Wisconsi...
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As America’s major spectator sports plot a return from their COVID-19-induced hiatus, reactions range from elation to apprehension to … wh...
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For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S...
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What has made anti-black violence such a predominant feature of life not only in the U.S. but around the world? Why does race seem to color almost...
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Germany’s defeat in World War II was inevitable by late 1943, but Adolf Hitler supposedly had an audacious plan for softening the final terms: disp...
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Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R...