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The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out to...

Area high school students bring Shakespeare to life, lending their own interpretations of his monologues and sonnets as they compete for a berth in th...

Marvel Comics’ headline-grabbing move to a female Thor a little more...

America in the 1950s was undergoing what the University of Missouri’s Steven Watts calls a “crisis of manhood,” denigrating Eisenh...

Even before her acclaimed debut novel, Brit Bennett had drawn attention for her forceful essays about racial injustice, police violen...

African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visiona...

The Library screens a series of romantic shorts and clips as it resumes a special new, intergenerational movie series welcoming individuals with de...

The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation...

They were unlikely heroes at a time – amid the nation’s Great Depression and added regional scourges of the Dust Bowl – when hope and inspiration was...