The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
This week, KCQ dug into a bit of Hemingway’s connections to Kansas City. It is true that he wrote pages of his novel A Farewell to Arms wh...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022
It was 126 years ago that real estate tycoon Thomas H. Swope donated the land to the city. A follow-up KCQ questioner wonders: What inspired his ge...
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Friday, March 25, 2022
Following a recent viewing of “The Day After,” the 1983 film depicting the destruction of Kansas City by nuclear attack, a reader wondered if the city...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Quindaro only lasted for six years—but one hundred sixty years later, it still fascinates people for its links to the Underground Railroad....
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Friday, March 4, 2022
Jack Johnson was one of the most famous people in the world in February 1912, having pummeled Jim Jeffries 19 months earlier in the “Fight of the Cent...
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Friday, February 25, 2022
A reader recalling her mother’s experience as a nurse during the integration of Kansas City’s hospital system in the 1950s, asked “What’s Your KCQ?” —...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Do you know the story of how KC became a barbecue hub?...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Five years before the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education, Corinthian Nutter worked with Black parents in Merriam to sue the district, and wo...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Founded in the late 19th century, this all-Black township offered free Black people a level of agency and freedom many had only dreamed of....
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Monday, February 14, 2022
Students asked The Star about the role youth played in Kansas City’s Civil Rights Movement. This Black History Month for KCQ, we look back to the stud...