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Part of preserving our city’s rich jazz history is caring for the musicians whose inimitable sounds were its essence. Former Kansas City Star columnis...

On July 18, 2017, the heads of four KC-area library systems joined KCPT’s Nick Haines...

St. Louis broadcaster and national travel writer Bill Clevlen maps out a bucket list of sites and experiences for travelers and vacat...

The Library marks the approach of Women’s Equality Week (August 20-26) by screening the 2016 documentary Equal Means Equal,...

Scott Bullock, who heads the libertarian, Virginia-based Institute for Justice, examines the role and impact of public interest law f...

Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, examines the exquisite paradox of the Monarch butterfly...

Humanity has explored far beyond the reaches of Earth, nearly to the edge of interstellar space (and we’re getting closer every day). We have visited...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

Sabermetrics savant Bill James applies his research and analytical skills to true-crime solving, making a convincing case that a more...

Author Ed Darack examines the downing of an Army helicopter in Afghanistan six years ago, killing all 38 aboard, in a discussion of h...