All Library locations will be close early Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m. & will be closed Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving.
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Symphony brings its series of free outdoor chamber concerts to the Library.Various ensembles perform for 45 minutes to an ho...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
The Library joins public broadcasting network PBS in a special online presentation – a conversation with acclaimed writer Kali Fajardo-Anst...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 29, 2020
10:00am
Online
How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 27, 2020
6:30pm
Online
At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
6:30pm
Online
One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
6:30pm
Online
Stephanie Powell Watts' first novel is a story about the things in our past that haunt us, that continue to call and constrain us from movin...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
6:30pm
Online
A lot of Black kids, Gabriel Bump says, are just trying to live their lives – fall in love, go to school, not do their homework –...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
6:30pm
Online
Yes, masks are effective in protecting both yourself and others from the spread of COVID-19. No, those who wear them aren’t risking oxygen deficien...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
10:00am
Online
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the pervasive and pernicious impact that the digital divide – the economic, educational, and social inequity be...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
6:30pm
Online
In a discussion of his new book The People, No, Kansas City-born author and political commentator Thomas Frank...