The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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Thursday, May 27, 2021
Troost Avenue has become known as Kansas City’s dividing line — and its roots run deep in the city’s history of racial segregation and slavery....
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021
When is the last time you remember hearing the Giralda Tower bells? Do you know someone who played them or performed maintenance on them? Have you eve...
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Friday, May 14, 2021
Services at the Library's Trails West location will be limited or unavailable from May 17-June 14, 2021, while upgra...
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
When Barbara Haar worked as a therapist and social worker at the Florence Home for Colored Girls in the late ’60s and early ‘70s, she would tell the r...
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Friday, May 7, 2021
In 1946, Kansas City found itself at a crossroads. The rise of the suburbs and decentralization posed a threat to downtown, creating a postwar existen...
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Thursday, April 29, 2021
At one time, this Kansas City entertainment complex had a 14,000-square-foot dance floor, a pool, ice skating and roller skating rinks. But then came...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Earth Day 2021 is here, which often renews people’s interest in finding ways to help out the environment. It is only fitting for “What’s Your KCQ?” to...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
“What’s Your KCQ?” — a partnership between The Star and the Kansas City Public Library — wants to know: What questions do you have about police reform...
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Friday, April 16, 2021
It was a hot June night in 1943, and Frances Angermayer could not sleep. So, she arose after midnight, went to her typewriter, and—in twenty minutes—w...
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
With the Major League Baseball season underway and the Royals faithful cheering on their boys in blue, it is fitting for What’s Your KCQ? to get a cur...