The Trails West branch closed early at 2 p.m. Monday, June 24 and will remained closed Tuesday, June 25, due to air conditioning issues.
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Friday, August 28, 2020
We’re celebrating the 100th birthday of Kansas City jazz legend Charlie Parker. Known as “Yardbird,” or just “Bird,” he was born in K...
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Friday, May 22, 2020
Gabriella Polony Mountain was passionate, expressive, indelible. And so was the art created by the namesake of the Rocky and Ga...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
From classic literature to contemporary cinema, the Library offers a number of ways to discover stories celebrating the African American experience. A...
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Friday, January 31, 2020
Each year, the Library partners with the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America to...
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Friday, August 9, 2019
This week marks 43 years since Ralph Steadman visited a muggy Kansas City to cover the 1976 Republican National Convention for...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019
The ink-splattered exhibit Ralph Steadman: A Retrosp...
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Thursday, May 30, 2019
Artist Ralph Steadman is known for his creative collaboration with writer Hunter S. Thompson, matching outrageous illustrations to Th...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Is reading about art like dancing about architecture? If an artist sits in a vacant gallery, is it art? If an author writes a novel with a real...
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Friday, February 8, 2019
From classic literature to contemporary cinema, the Library offers a number of ways to discover stories celebrating the African American experience. A...
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Monday, January 28, 2019
Each year, the Library partners with the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America to...